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New England Enterprise. Hopeful Future. 



Now if the lines of commercial enterprise 

 can be only kept from parting with the rectilin- 

 ear of moral propriety and the law of God, 

 our career of greatness as a nation is clear and 

 glorious. The great future is before us, full of 

 hope, if old Puritan principles be only at the 

 head with modern New England enterprise. 



Far, like the comet's way through infinite space, 

 Stretches the long, untraveled path of light 

 Into the depth of ages : we may trace, afar, 

 The brightening glories of its flight, 

 Till the receding rays are lost to human sight. 



I love thee ; next to Heaven above, 

 Land of my fathers ! thee I love ; 

 And rail thy slanderers as they will, 

 With all thy faults, I love thee still. 



I love thee when I hear thy voice 

 Bid a despairing world rejoice, 

 And loud from shore to shore proclaim, 

 In every tongue, Messiah's name ; 

 That name at which, from sea to sea, 

 All nations yet shall bow the knee. 



