English Song Originally

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    “That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Half of my life is gone, and I have let
    The years slip from me and have not fulfilled
    The aspiration of my youth, to build
    Some tower of song with lofty parapet.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)