William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.
Harrison and LibertyF
From cold New Hampshire’s piney hills;
From broad Atlantic’s sullen roar,
To where the western ocean swells,—
How loud the notes of joy arise
From every bosom warm and free!
How strains triumphant fill the skies
For Harrison and liberty.
Your independence did declare,
Whose words still glow like living fires,—
His father’s name is written there.
That father taught that son to swear
His country ne’er enslaved should be;
Then lend your voices to the air
For Harrison and Liberty!
When Wayne so wild and madly burst,
Among his brave and gallant band
The youthful Harrison was first.
And when, on Wabash leafy banks,
Tecumseh’s warriors gather’d free;
How swift they fled before the ranks
Of Harrison and Liberty!
And haughty Britons circled round,
His conquering legions clear’d the field,
While notes of triumph peal’d around!
And though on Thames’s tide again
His progress Proctor sought to stay,
Dismay’d he fled, and left the plain
To Harrison and Liberty!
Who glory for his country won:—
Shout for the hero, patriot, sage,
For William Henry Harrison:
Of all our chiefs he oftenest fought,
But never lost a victory,
And peace was gain’d, and plenty brought
By Harrison and Liberty!