Joseph Hopkinson, Hail Columbia.
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Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heavenborn band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
— United States
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heavenborn band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause." in the context of "Joseph Hopkinson, Hail Columbia." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "United States" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 21–23.)
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