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James Ryder Randall

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The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple-door,
Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle-queen of yore,
Maryland, my Maryland!

 
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My Maryland; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 
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You can hear them crying down the lane
From Portland to Maryland
From Greece to Spain.

 
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