Mug

Type: Inscription

Location: Exterior

Inscription: "ADAMS AND LIBERTY/ Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought,/ For those rights, which unstained from your sires had descended,/ May you long taste the blessings your valour has bought/ And your sons reap the soil, which their fathers defended!/ Mid the reign of mild peace,/ May your nation increase,/ With the Glory of Rome and the Wisdom of Greece./ (in italics) Chorus./ And ne'er may the Sons of Columbia be slaves,/ While the earth bears a plant, of the sea rolls its waves! (end italics)/ Should the tempest of war overshadow our land,/ Its bolts (italics) could ne'er rend Freedom's Temple (italics) asunder,/ For unmov'd, at its portal (italics), would WASHINGTON stand,/ And repulse (italics), with his breast (italics), the assaults of the thunder (italics),/ His sword (italics), from the sleep/ Of its scabbard, would leap,/ And conduct (italics), with its point (italics), every slash (italics) to the deep:/ For ne'er shall the Sons, & c. (italics)/ Let Fame to the world sound Ame