A BALLAD AT PARTING.
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Song, thy name is freedom, seeing thy strength was born of breeze and brine.
Fare now forth and fear no fortune: such a seal is set on thee.
Joy begat and memory bare thee, seeing in spirit a twofold sign,
Even the sign of those thy fosters, each as thou from all time free,
Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea.
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
