Her lakes are oceans, every stream a bay,
Wide through her frame its branching artery throws:
Her mountains kiss the moon: her sapient sway
A beauteous belt hath wrought, whose ties enclose
Tribes without end, realm after realm embraced
In Freedom's opening arms, the savage and the waste.

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