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Arms And The Man. - The Old Dominion.

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Midway between the orange and the snows     As some fair planet rounds up from the sea,     Eldest of all, the Central Power arose             In vague immensity.     She stretched from Seas in sun to Lakes in Shade,     O'erstepped swift Rio Escondido's stream -     Her bounds expressed, as by the Tudor made,             An Alexander's dream.     And liberal Stuart granted broad and free     Bound'ries which still the annalist may boast -     Limits which ran "throughout from sea to sea,"             And far along the coast!     A mighty shaft through Raleigh's fingers slipped,     Smith shot it, and - a Continent awoke!     For that great arrow with an acorn tipped,             Planted an English Oak!

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