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3t. ANDREW’S. DAT.
■i'uT, '’a!, to tne flay tlut rufp’cious Tcturns, • 1
f’U’r country’s bicak re.’io-.s lo C'.err ! ^
xiip -va-ure the winter’s wild ravages moarncj
*et joy flied its influei ct I'trc :
v'ar hence be tne frowns and the trrvmurs cfearrf, •
1:! each breaft ea ch the patriot flaste!
Wija: foti! but aipires in otir «a»tures to fliare,
When Scotia and Ftceooinh thetlienie,
When Scotia as.iTFiccdoniV, fire.
Tho- e. ’d arc otir I)i!ls. and tin’ barren our piain*^
our climate thn rude ard fsvc:'e
Yet health sofy health firings the nerves of our f wains,!
and fmiics on the checks cf our fair,
And Freedom, b:efi Freedom, that takes effour loacj
fr ri regions rtiinrc fertile exil’d,
’Mid our w ods and pu! w Iris •■ad of old bar abode,
and cur crime, of it: rigours beguil’d. Ana. &c.
in hoftije array when R nte's legions appear’d,
her voice founded 1'ng.o’er t m heath ;
On cur hill, her proud ftandsrd Otuiting fhe rear’d,
an i her motto was ■ Goroic0..oi Death!”
Our ericcftors. heard, and re-cclmed th.s founds,
t; fo cm truer or die be Cur doom !”
Unm iv d as tueir mountains,Ttwa* theirs to fet botm-ds;
ts'.U’.C f>w'r asd agupitiq.t of Jijijic., fo, fife.*.