CHAPTER I

_The Coming of Discontent_

THE VIRGINIA SONG, Unknown 129 THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, Unknown 130 A SONG, Unknown 130 THE LIBERTY POLE, Unknown 131 THE BRITISH GRENADIER, Unknown 132 CRISPUS ATTUCKS, John Boyle O'Reilly 132 UNHAPPY BOSTON, Paul Revere 134 ALAMANCE, Seymour W. Whiting 135 A NEW SONG CALLED THE GASPEE, Unknown 135 A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY, Oliver Wendell Holmes 136 A NEW SONG, Unknown 137 HOW WE BECAME A NATION, Harriet Prescott Spofford 138 A PROCLAMATION, Unknown 138 THE BLASTED HERB, Mesech Weare 139 EPIGRAM, Unknown 140 THE DAUGHTER'S REBELLION, Francis Hopkinson 140 ON THE SNAKE DEPICTED AT THE HEAD OF SOME AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, Unknown 140 FREE AMERICA, Joseph Warren 140 LIBERTY TREE, Thomas Paine 141 THE MOTHER COUNTRY, Benjamin Franklin 142 PENNSYLVANIA SONG, Unknown 142 MARYLAND RESOLVES, Unknown 142 MASSACHUSETTS SONG OF LIBERTY, Mercy Warren 143 EPIGRAM, Unknown 144 TO THE BOSTON WOMEN, Unknown 144 PROPHECY, Gulian Verplanck 144

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