We, “one and all,” have been your foes,
My brother Jim, and John, and I.
For my own sake, you well may wonder
That I these lines to you have sent;
It is to lay the public under
An “obligation permanent.”
Assembly Chamber, March 8th.
Done into English and verse by H.
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