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William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.

Universal Freedom

THE POWER that created the night and the day,

Gave his image divine to each model of clay;

Though on different features the god be impress’d,

One spirit immortal pervades every breast.

And Nature’s great charter the right never gave,

That one mortal another should dare to enslave.

The same genial ray that the lilies unfold,

Gives the diamond its lustre, it brightness to gold;

That which Europe’s proud sons to rapture inspire,

Warms each African breast with as genial a fire.
And Nature’s great charter, &c.

May the head be corrected, subdued the proud soul

That would fetter free limbs, and free spirits control:

Be the gem or in ebon or in ivory enshrined,

The same form of heart warms the whole human kind.
And Nature’s great charter, &c.

May Freedom, whose rays we are taught to adore,

Beam bright as the sun, and bless every shore;

No charter that pleads for the rights of mankind,

To invest these with gold, those with fetters can bind.
And Nature’s great charter, &c.