From distant climes, o’er wide-spread seas we come,
Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum,
True patriots all, for it be understood,
We left our country for our country’s good:
No private views disgraced our generous zeal,
What urged our travels was our country’s weal:
And none will doubt that our emigration
Had prov’d most useful to the British Nation.
(George Barrington)
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