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With frontier strength ye stand your ground, / With grand content ye circle round, / Tumultuous silence for all sound, / Ye distant nursery of rills, / Monadnock, and the Peterborough hills; -- / Firm argument that never stirs, / Outcircling the philosophers, -- / Like some vast fleet / Sailing through rain and sleet, / Through winter's cold and summer's heat;
Still holding on upon your high emprise, / Until ye find a shore amid the skies;