My country ’tis of thee
Sweet land of felony
Of thee I sing —
Land where my father fried
Young witches and applied
Whips to the Quaker’s hide
And made him spring.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
“A Rational Anthem,” Black Beatles in Amber (1892)

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