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Eighth Child : 
And when four more months of trouble 
Into the past had sped, 
The royal governor ’neath that tree 
His resignation read. 
Ninth Child : 
But at last the lawless soldiery 
Beneath the old elm stood, 
And Boston’s liberty-tree 
Became the Briton’s firewood. 
All; 
This elm was cut down by the British in 1775. The soldiers used it for 
firewood and got fourteen cords from it. 
Tenth Child : 
All over the land in ’sixty-five, 
In spite of king and crown, 
The liberty-trees were springing up, 
In every village and town. 
In Charleston, South Carolina, there was one, 
’Twas a great live oak, 
There it stood till in seventeen-eighty 
It was burned by the British folk. 
All: 
The Declaration of Independence was read and meetings were held under 
this tree. In 1780, it was cut down and burned by the British. 
Eleventh Child : 
When the Stamp Act had been repealed 
On Norwich’s oak so green. 
On the topmost branch of the stately tree 
A Phrygian cap was seen. 
All : 
When the Stamp Act was repealed the people erected a tent under oak¬ 
spreading branches, and encouraged each other to resist all acts of oppression. 
Twelfth Child : 
And Washington in ’seventy-five, 
’Neath Cambridge’s elm tree came. 
To take command of the army 
’Mid the people’s loud acclaim. 
Thirteenth Child: 
And still on the green at Cambridge 
The old tree stands to-day, 
Though rebel and tory long ago, 
To dust have mouldered away. 
