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Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

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Thomas Campbell
Age: 66 †
Born: 1777
Born: July 27
Died: 1844
Died: June 15
Journalist
Musicologist
Poet
Writer
Glasgow
Scotland
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Free
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First
Patriotism
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Tree
Liberty
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