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BG.777.001
20 Jan 1777:12 (1131)
AS the superstition and weakness of human nature is such,
that sometimes the most trivial circumstance or grossest
absurdity is attended with serious consequences; you are
desire to acquaint the timid and credulous, that character
inscribed on adamant are much more darable than when wrote
only on an egg-shell. And also to inform the public, that
about the time the prophetic egg was laid in the town of
Plymouth, with this wonderful prediction wrote on its shell,
"OH, Oh, America How shall be thy conqueror," an hermit,
resembling the genius of America, who had resided in a
certain forest from the first settlement of the country,
found the following lines inscribed on a fragment of marble
near his cave, visited by the curious from all parts of
Europe, for the remarkable Eccho which oft reverberated in
loud peals, heard beyond the Atlantic,
----Britannia--sinks beneath her crimes
She dies--she dies--let Empire rise,
And Freedom cheer the Western skies.
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When ever art and menace fails,
And tory lies and Tory tales
. . . [32 more lines; signed:] America.
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