BOSTON
SICUT PATRIBUS, SIT DEUS NOBIS RALPH WALDO EMERSON
[sidenote: Dec. 16, 1773] This poem was read in Faneuil Hall, on the Centennial Anniversary of the "Boston Tea-Party," at which a band of men disguised as Indians had quietly emptied into the sea the taxed tea-chests of three British ships.
The rocky nook with hill-tops three Looked eastward from the farms, And twice each day the flowing...
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