The harp of freedom
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...this,earth, To draw my kindred, if I can, Around its free, though humble hearth. The hounds are baying on my track, O Christian! will you send me back! The Strength of Tyranny. The tyrant's chains are only strong While slaves submit to wear them; Vnd, who could bind them on the strong, Determined not to wear them 1 hen clank your chains, e'en though the links Were light as fashion's feather: 'he heart which rightly feels and thinks Would cast them altogether. The lords of earth are only great While others clothe and feed them! But what were all their pride and state Should labor cease to heed them 7 The swain is higher than a king: Before the laws of nature, The monarch were a useless thing, The swain a useless creature. We toil, we spin, we delve the mine, Sustaining each his neighbor; And who can hold a right divine To rob us of our labor 1 We rush to battle--bear our lot In every ill and danger--And who shall make the peaceful cot To homely joy a stranger 1 Perish all tyrants far and near, Beneath the chains that bind us; And perish too hat servile fear Which mak 4 the slaves they find us: One grand, or e universal claim--One peal cf moral thunder--One glorious burst in Freedom's name, And rend our bonds asunder 1 The mildew of slavery has blighted each blossom, That ever has bloomed in her path-way below; It has froze every fountain that gushed in her bosom, And chilled her heart's verdure with pitiless woe: Her parents, her kindred, all crushed by oppression; Her husband still doomed in its desert to stay; No arm to protect from the tyrant's aggression--She must weep as she treads on her desolate way. O, slave-mother, hope! see--the nation is shaking! The arm of the Lord is awake to thy wrong! The slave-holder's heart now with terror is quaking Salvati...
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