While the Bell, with joyous note
Clanging from its brazen throat,
Rings the tidings, all-exultant — peals the news to shore and sea;
"Man is man — a slave no longer,
Truth and Right than Might are stronger.
Praise to God! We're free; we're free!"
– Elbridge S. Brooks, from "Liberty Bell," section I. Philadelphia, 1776, written in 1885 for St. Nicholas Magazine
