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Long, long ago, beneath heaven's stormy slope, / In deeds of faith and hope, / Our fathers laid Freedom's foundations here, / And raised, invisible, vast, -- / Embodying naught of doubt or fear, / A monument whose greatness shall outlast / The future, as the past, / Of all the Old World's dynasties and kings. --
A symbol of all things / That we would speak, but cannot say in words, / Of those who first began our Nation here, / Behold, we now would rear! / A different monument! a thought, that girds / Itself with granite; / dream made visible / In rock and bronze to tell / To all the Future what here once befell;