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THE SEA-SERPENT. 
CALIFORNIA SONG. 
I. 
We sail, — our gallant vessel 
Careers before the blast, 
Yet “ swifter than the thoughts of love” 
Come visions of the past. 
Fast, fast thy shores, New England, 
Are fading through our tears, 
Yet warm the lovely landscape 
That busy memory rears. 
CHORUS. 
Pledge, brothers, pledge, 
While, circled hand in hand, 
We swear that our good bark shall bear 
True patriots to that strand. 
ii. 
No, not to found an empire 
We seek our Western strand ; 
When we spy its piercing mountains, 
We but hail our native land ; 
