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BOSTON HYMN.
77

I will have never a noble,
No lineage counted great;
Fishers and choppers and ploughmen
Shall constitute a state.


Go, cut down trees in the forest,
And trim the straightest boughs;
Cut down trees in the forest,
And build me a wooden house.


Call the people together,
The young men and the sires,
The digger in the harvest field,
Hireling, and him that hires;


And here in a pine state-house
They shall choose men to rule
In every needful faculty,
In church, and state, and school.