STANZAS.

Shall Belgium feel, and gallant France,
By Vendome's pile and Schoenbrun's wall,
And Poland, gasping on her lance,

The impulse of our cheering call?
And shall the SLAVE, beneath our eye,
Clank o'er our fields his hateful chain?
And toss his fettered arms on high,
And groan for Freedom's gift, in vain ?

Oh, say, shall Prussia's banner be
A refuge for the stricken slave?
And shall the Russian serf go free

By Baikal's lake and Neva's wave?
And shall the wintry-bosomed Dane
Relax the iron hand of pride,
And bid his bondmen cast the chain
From fettered soul and limb, aside?

Shall every flap of England's flag

Proclaim that all around are free,
From "farthest Ind" to each blue crag
That beetles o'er the Western Sea?
And shall we scoff at Europe's kings,
When Freedom's fire is dim with us,
And round our country's altar clings
The damning shade of Slavery's curse?

Go

let us ask of Constantine

To loose his grasp on Poland's throat;
And beg the lord of Mahmoud's line
To spare the struggling Suliote
Will not the scorching answer come

From turbaned Turk, and scornful Russ:

"Go, loose your fettered slaves at home,

Then turn, and ask the like of us!"

Just God! and shall we calmly rest,

The Christian's scorn the heathen's mirthContent to live the lingering jest

And by-word of a mocking Earth?

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Shall our own glorious land retain

That curse which Europe scorns to bear? Shall our own brethren drag the chain Which not even Russia's menials wear?

Up, then, in Freedom's manly part,
From gray-beard eld to fiery youth,
And on the nation's naked heart

Scatter the living coals of Truth!
Up-while ye slumber, deeper yet
The shadow of our fame is growing!
Up-while ye pause, our sun may set
In blood, around our altars flowing!

Oh! rouse ye, ere the storm comes forth

The gathered wrath of God and man-
Like that which wasted Egypt's earth,

When hail and fire above it ran.
Hear ye no warnings in the air?
Feel ye no earthquake underneath?
Up-up-why will ye slumber where
The sleeper only wakes in death?

Up now for Freedom! - not in strife
Like that your sterner fathers saw
The awful waste of human life

The glory and the guilt of war:
But break the chain- the yoke remove,
And smite to earth Oppression's rod,
With those mild arms of Truth and Love,
Made mighty through the living God!

Down let the shrine of Moloch sink,
And leave no traces where it stood;

Nor longer let its idol drink

His daily cup of human blood:

But rear another altar there,

To Truth and Love and Mercy given, And Freedom's gift, and Freedom's prayer, Shall call an answer down from Heaven.!

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CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.

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CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.

UST God! - and these are they

Who minister at thine altar, God of Right!

Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay
On Israel's Ark of light!

What! preach and kidnap men?
Give thanks and rob thy own afflicted poor?
Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then

Bolt hard the captive's door?

What! servants of thy own

Merciful Son, who came to seek and save
The homeless and the outcast, fettering down
The tasked and plundered slave!

Pilate and Herod, friends!

Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!
Just God and holy! is that church, which lends
Strength to the spoiler, thine?

Paid hypocrites, who turn

Judgment aside, and rob the Holy Book

Of those high words of truth which search and burn
In warning and rebuke;

Feed fat, ye locusts, feed!

And, in your tasselled pulpits, thank the Lord
That, from the toiling bondman's utter need,
Ye pile your own full board.

How long, O Lord! how long Shall such a priesthood barter truth away, And, in thy name, for robbery and wrong At thy own altars pray?

Is not thy hand stretched forth Visibly in the heavens, to awe and smite? Shall not the living God of all the earth, And heaven above, do right?

Woe, then, to all who grind

Their brethren of a common Father down!
To all who plunder from the immortal mind
Its bright and glorious crown!

Woe to the priesthood! woe

To those whose hire is with the price of blood -
Perverting, darkening, changing as they go,
The searching truths of God!

Their glory and their might
Shall perish; and their very names shall be
Vile before all the people, in the light
Of a world's liberty.

Oh! speed the moment on

When Wrong shall cease- and Liberty, and Love, And Truth, and Right, throughout the earth be known As in their home above.

THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE.

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THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE.

CHRISTIAN! going, gone!
Who bids for God's own image?.

Which that poor victim of the market-place
Hath in her suffering won?

My God! can such things be?

Hast Thou not said that whatsoe'er is done
Unto thy weakest and thy humblest one,
Is even done to Thee?

In that sad victim, then,

Child of thy pitying love, I see Thee stand
Once more the jest-word of a mocking band,
Bound, sold, and scourged again!

A Christian up for sale!

for his grace

Wet with her blood your whips o'ertask her frame,
Make her life loathsome with your wrong and shame,
Her patience shall not fail!

A heathen hand might deal

Back on your heads the gathered wrong of years,
But her low, broken prayer and nightly tears,
Ye neither heed nor feel.

No dangerous tale of Him who came to save

The outcast and the poor.

But wisely shut the ray

Of God's free Gospel from her simple heart,
And to her darkened mind alone impart

One stern command - OBEY!