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To day the plant by Williams set	A
Its summer bloom discloses	B
The wilding sweethrier of his prayers	C
Is crowned with cultured roses	B
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Once more the Island State repeats	D
The lesson that he taught her	E
And binds his pearl of charity	F
Upon her brown locked daughter	E
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Is 't fancy that he watches still	G
His Providence plantations	H
That still the careful Founder takes	I
A part on these occasions	H
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Methinks I see that reverend form	J
Which all of us so well know	K
He rises up to speak he jogs	L
The presidential elbow	K
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'Good friends ' he says 'you reap a field	M
I sowed in self denial	N
For toleration had its griefs	L
And charity its trial	N
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'Great grace as saith Sir Thomas More	O
To him must needs be given	P
Who heareth heresy and leaves	L
The heretic to Heaven	P
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'I hear again the snuffled tones	L
I see in dreary vision	P
Dyspeptic dreamers spiritual bores	L
And prophets with a mission	P
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'Each zealot thrust before my eyes	L
His Scripture garbled label	N
All creeds were shouted in my ears	L
As with the tongues of Babel	N
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'Scourged at one cart tail each denied	Q
The hope of every other	E
Each martyr shook his branded fist	R
At the conscience of his brother	E
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'How cleft the dreary drone of man	S
The shriller pipe of woman	P
As Gorton led his saints elect	T
Who held all things in common	P
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'Their gay robes trailed in ditch and swamp	U
And torn by thorn and thicket	V
The dancing girls of Merry Mount	W
Came dragging to my wicket	X
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'Shrill Anabaptists shorn of ears	L
Gray witch wives hobbling slowly	F
And Antinomians free of law	Y
Whose very sins were holy	F
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'Hoarse ranters crazed Fifth Monarchists	L
Of stripes and bondage braggarts	L
Pale Churchmen with singed rubrics snatched	Z
From Puritanic fagots	L
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'And last not least the Quakers came	A2
With tongues still sore from burning	B2
The Bay State's dust from off their feet	C2
Before my threshold spurning	B2
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'A motley host the Lord's debris	L
Faith's odds and ends together	E
Well might I shrink from guests with lungs	L
Tough as their breeches leather	E
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'If when the hangman at their heels	L
Came rope in hand to catch them	D2
I took the hunted outcasts in	E2
I never sent to fetch them	D2
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'I fed but spared them not a whit	V
I gave to all who walked in	E2
Not clams and succotash alone	F2
But stronger meat of doctrine	P
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'I proved the prophets false I pricked	G2
The bubble of perfection	P
And clapped upon their inner light	H2
The snuffers of election	P
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'And looking backward on my times	L
This credit I am taking	B2
I kept each sectary's dish apart	I2
No spiritual chowder making	B2
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'Where now the blending signs of sect	T
Would puzzle their assorter	E
The dry shod Quaker kept the land	J2
The Baptist held the water	E
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'A common coat now serves for both	K2
The hat's no more a fixture	E
And which was wet and which was dry	E
Who knows in such a mixture	E
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'Well He who fashioned Peter's dream	L2
To bless them all is able	N
And bird and beast and creeping thing	B2
Make clean upon His table	N
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'I walked by my own light but when	M2
The ways of faith divided	N2
Was I to force unwilling feet	C2
To tread the path that I did	O2
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'I touched the garment hem of truth	P2
Yet saw not all its splendor	E
I knew enough of doubt to feel	Q2
For every conscience tender	E
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'God left men free of choice as when	M2
His Eden trees were planted	N2
Because they chose amiss should I	E
Deny the gift He granted	N2
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'So with a common sense of need	R2
Our common weakness feeling	B2
I left them with myself to God	S2
And His all gracious dealing	B2
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'I kept His plan whose rain and sun	P
To tare and wheat are given	P
And if the ways to hell were free	E
I left then free to heaven '	-
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Take heart with us O man of old	T2
Soul freedom's brave confessor	E
So love of God and man wax strong	U2
Let sect and creed be lesser	E
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The jarring discords of thy day	V2
In ours one hymn are swelling	B2
The wandering feet the severed paths	L
All seek our Father's dwelling	B2
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And slowly learns the world the truth	P2
That makes us all thy debtor	E
That holy life is more than rite	H2
And spirit more than letter	E
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That they who differ pole wide serve	W2
Perchance the common Master	E
And other sheep He hath than they	V2
Who graze one narrow pasture	E
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For truth's worst foe is he who claims	L
To act as God's avenger	E
And deems beyond his sentry beat	C2
The crystal walls in danger	E
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Who sets for heresy his traps	L
Of verbal quirk and quibble	N
And weeds the garden of the Lord	X2
With Satan's borrowed dibble	N
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To day our hearts like organ keys	L
One Master's touch are feeling	B2
The branches of a common Vine	Y2
Have only leaves of healing	B2
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Co workers yet from varied fields	L
We share this restful nooning	B2
The Quaker with the Baptist here	E
Believes in close communing	B2
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Forgive dear saint the playful tone	F2
Too light for thy deserving	B2
Thanks for thy generous faith in man	S
Thy trust in God unswerving	B2
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Still echo in the hearts of men	M2
The words that thou hast spoken	P
No forge of hell can weld again	M2
The fetters thou hast broken	P
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The pilgrim needs a pass no more	E
From Roman or Genevan	P
Thought free no ghostly tollman keeps	L
Henceforth the road to Heaven	P

John Greenleaf Whittier

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