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Onward with your fell design;
Dig the gulf and draw the line:
Fire beneath your feet the mine:

Deeply, when the wide abyss
Yawns between your land and this,
Shall ye feel your helplessness.

By the hearth, and in the bed,
Shaken by a look or tread,
Ye shall own a guilty dread.

And the curse of unpaid toil, Downward through your generous soil Like a fire shall burn and spoil.

Our bleak hills shall bud and blow,
Vines our rocks shall overgrow,

Plenty in our valleys flow;

And when vengeance clouds your skies, Hither shall ye turn your eyes,

As the lost on Paradise!

We but ask our rocky strand,

Freedom's true and brother band,
Freedom's strong and honest hand, ·

Valleys by the slave untrod,
And the Pilgrim's mountain sod,
Blessed of our fathers' God!"

TO FANEUIL HALL.

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TO FANEUIL HALL.

EN!

1844.

if manhood still ye claim,

M1 If the Northern pulse can thrill,

Roused by wrong or stung by shame,
Freely, strongly still: -

Let the sounds of traffic die:

Shut the mill-gate-leave the stall Fling the axe and hammer by Throng to Faneuil Hall!

Wrongs which freemen never brooked
Dangers grim and fierce as they,
Which, like couching lions, looked
On your father's way;

These your instant zeal demand,

Shaking with their earthquake-call

Every rood of Pilgrim land

Ho, to Faneuil Hall!

From your capes and sandy bars

From your mountain-ridges cold,

Through whose pines the westering stars
Stoop their crowns of gold —
Come, and with your footsteps wake
Echoes from that holy wall:

Once again, for Freedom's sake,

Rock your fathers' hall!

Up, and tread beneath your feet
Every cord by party spun;
Let your hearts together beat
As the heart of one.

Banks and tariffs, stocks and trade,
Let them rise or let them fall:
Freedom asks your common aid
Up, to Faneuil Hall!

Up, and let each voice that speaks

Ring from thence to Southern plains,
Sharply as the blow which breaks
Prison-bolts and chains!

Speak as well becomes the free
Dreaded more than steel or ball,
Shall your calmest utterance be,
Heard from Faneuil Hall!

Have they wronged us? Let us then
Render back nor threats nor prayers;
Have they chained our free-born men?
LET US UNCHAIN THEIRS !

Up! your banner leads the van,
Blazoned "Liberty for all!
Finish what your sires began
Up, to Faneuil Hall!

THE PINE-TREE.

1846.

IFT again the stately emblem on the Bay State's rusted

L Shield,

Give to Northern winds the Pine-Tree on our banner's tattered field, Sons of men who sat in council with their Bibles round the board, Answering England's royal missive with a firm, "THUS SAITH

THE LORD!"

Rise again for home and freedom! set the battle in array! What the fathers did of old time we their sons must do to-day.

THE PINE-TREE.

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Tell us not of banks and tariffs cease your paltry peddler cries Shall the good State sink her honor that your gambling stocks may rise?

Would ye barter man for cotton?

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Must we kiss the feet of Moloch, pass our children through the

fire?

Is the dollar only real? — God and truth and right a dream? Weighed against your lying ledgers must our manhood kick the

beam ?

O my God!

for that free spirit, which of old in Boston town Smote the Province House with terror, struck the crest of Andros

down!

For another strong-voiced Adams in the city's streets to cry :
Up for God and Massachusetts !

lie!

Set your feet on Mammon's

Perish banks and perish traffic-spin your cotton's latest pound — But in Heaven's name keep your honor - keep the heart o' the Bay State sound!"

Where's the MAN for Massachusetts ? Where's the voice to speak her free?

Where's the hand to light up bonfires from her mountains to the

sea?

Beats her Pilgrim pulse no longer?

spair?

Sits she dumb in her de

Has she none to break the silence? Has she none to do and

dare?

O my God! for one right worthy to lift up her rusted shield, And to plant again the Pine-Tree in her banner's tattered field !

LINES,

SUGGESTED BY A VISIT TO THE CITY OF WASHINGTON IN THE 12TH MONTH OF 1845.

ITH a cold and wintry noon-light,

WITH
On its roofs and steeples shed,

Shadows weaving with the sunlight

From the gray sky overhead,

Broadly, vaguely, all around me, lies the half-built town outspread.

Through this broad street, restless ever,

Ebbs and flows a human tide,

Wave on wave a living river;

Wealth and fashion side by side;

Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Underneath yon dome, whose coping
Springs above them, vast and tall,

Grave men in the dust are groping

For the largess, base and small,

Which the hand of Power is scattering, crumbs which from its table fall.

Base of heart! They vilely barter

Honor's wealth for party's place :
Step by step on Freedom's charter

Leaving footprints of disgrace;

For to-day's poor pittance turning from the great hope of their race.

Yet, where festal lamps are throwing
Glory round the dancer's hair,
Gold-tressed, like an angel's flowing

Backward on the sunset air;

And the low quick pulse of music beats its measures sweet and rare :

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