This poem from 1849 celebrates American Independence on the 4 July 1776. It was originally published in the Democratic Review
The Glorious Fourth of July | Anonymous
How Victorians Fell in Love with American Rebels
The British people and the American people did not always like each other. The Americans had broken away from the empire in 1783 and relations remained frosty for over a century. But in the late Victorian era, British writers’ feelings about Americans began to change.