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IC.783.030
14 Aug 1783:21,22,23 (16/602)
The Valedictory Oration, delivered at the first commencement
in Washington College, in the State of Maryland, May 14,
1783. by Charles Smith, B. A.
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It comes! it comes! the promis'd aera comes!
Now peace and science shall disperse the glooms
Of war and error-and, with cheerful ray,
O'er long benighted realms shed heavenly day.
Hark! the glad muses strike the warbling string,
And in melodious accents, thus they sing--
"Woods, brooks, gales, fountains, long unknown to fame,
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Haste, O ye Gales, your spicy sweets impart,
In music breathe them to th' exulting heart!
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Thrice welcome to these shores, here ever dwell
With shade and silence, far from dire alarms,
The trumpet's horrid clang and din of arms--
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Hark! Other Homers, Virgils touch the string,
and other Popes and Miltons, joyous, sing;
Find other Twit'nams in each bowery wood,
And other Tibers in each sylvan flood!
Lo! the wild Indian soften'd by their song,
Emerging from his arbours, bounds along
The green Savannah, patriot of the lore,
Of dove-eye'd wisdom--and is rude no more.
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