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duty to glorify truth and make it worshiped of the people. They 

 can touch the hearts of all fellow citizens to a common response, and 

 surprise them to the full realization of a common love. 



We hear of La douce France and Bell' Italia, of Gamle Norge and 

 Merry England, of the Vaterland and the Emerald Isle, and such 

 literary phrases as these suffice to arouse intense patriotic emotion. 

 We are now in a land that preeminently deserves the title "free," and 

 freedom as here newly conceived and enacted may well be the burden 

 of a new nation's song. Let our writers renew the best imaginings 

 of their fathers; but let them also open their eyes and see afar off: 

 let them descry the land of hope. 



