Rise like an altar-fire!
In solemn joy aspire,

Deepening thy passion still, O Choral strain !

On thy strong rushing wind
Bear up from human kind

Thanks and implorings-be th y not in vain.

Felicia Hemans.

SONGS

J

OF

THE FREE,

AND

HYMNS

OF

CHRISTIAN FREEDOM:

Suited to such as visit at the shrine of serious Liberty.-Percival.

BOSTON:

ISAAC KNAPP, WASHINGTON STREET.

MDCCCXXXVI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by ISAAC KNAPP, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO

THE DEVOTED FRIENDS

OF

FREEDOM,

EVERY WHERE,

THIS BOOK

IS

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

M. W. C.