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I have journeyed the spacious world over, / And here to thy sapphire wide gate, / America, I, thy True Lover / Return now, exalted, elate, / As an heir who returns to recover / His forefathers' lofty estate.
I 've seen visions of castle and palace / Up-soaring to sun-flooded skies, / Where men have drunk deep of Death's chalice, / In infinite soul-agonies -- / Where Tyranny glutted her malice / And battened on Liberty's cries.