A TRUE STATE.
BY SIE WILLIAM JONES. What constitutes a State ? Not high raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate — Not cities proud, with spires and turret! crowned — Nor bays, and broad armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride — Not starred and spangled courts — No ! men, high-minded men, Men who $heir duties know, That knew their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain. These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State'a collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowing good, repressing ill.
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Southland Times, Issue 618, 14 January 1867, Page 3
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103A TRUE STATE. Southland Times, Issue 618, 14 January 1867, Page 3
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