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III. The Highlands.

And not alone thy features fair,
And legend lore and matchless grace,
But noble deeds of courage rare
Illume, as with a soul, thy face.

The Highlands and the Palisades
Mirror their beauty in the tide,
The history of whose forest shades
A nation reads with conscious pride.

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