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, —... National Lyrics - Page 11by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
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...has some good round invective, equally unfair, but rather more telling than that quoted above : — " Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers,...church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine?" The first stanza of" The Pine- Tree" contains an inspiring appeal, and a graphic picture of the old... | |
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...Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! servants of thine own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! These and other verses of a like kind show the moral purpose of Whittier's early work, which is perhaps... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...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...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
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...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...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!... | |
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...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...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! How long, 0 Lord ! how long Shall such a priesthood barter truth away, And, in Thy name, for robbery... | |
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...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...The homeless and the outcast — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
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...has some good round invective, equally unfair, but rather more telling than that quoted above : — " Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers,...church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? " The first stanza of " The Pine- Tree " contains an inspiring appeal, and a graphic picture of the... | |
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...glorious liberty — and then Bolt hard the captive's door? What! servants of thine own Merciful SOD, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave I Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine 1 Just God and holy 1 is... | |
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...and rob Thy own afflicted poorf 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 ontcast — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends I Chief priests... | |
| William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - History - 1868 - 322 pages
...homeless and the outcast—fettering down The tasked and plundered slave I Pilate and Herod, friends 1 Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine! Just God and holy I is that church which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? Paid hypocrites! who turn Judgment aside,... | |
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