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NIGHT on the city of the Moor	A
On mosque and tomb and white walled shore	B
On sea waves to whose ceaseless knock	C
The narrow harbor gates unlock	C
On corsair's galley carack tall	D
And plundered Christian caraval	D
The sounds of Moslem life are still	D
No mule bell tinkles down the hill	D
Stretched in the broad court of the khan	E
The dusty Bornou caravan	F
Lies heaped in slumber beast and man	F
The Sheik is dreaming in his tent	G
His noisy Arab tongue o'erspent	G
The kiosk's glimmering lights are gone	H
The merchant with his wares withdrawn	H
Rough pillowed on some pirate breast	G
The dancing girl has sunk to rest	G
And save where measured footsteps fall	D
Along the Bashaw's guarded wall	D
Or where like some bad dream the Jew	I
Creeps stealthily his quarter through	I
Or counts with fear his golden heaps	J
The City of the Corsair sleeps	J
But where yon prison long and low	D
Stands black against the pale star glow	D
Chafed by the ceaseless wash of waves	K
There watch and pine the Christian slaves	K
Rough bearded men whose far off wives	L
Wear out with grief their lonely lives	M
And youth still flashing from his eyes	N
The clear blue of New England skies	N
A treasured lock of whose soft hair	O
Now wakes some sorrowing mother's prayer	O
Or worn upon some maiden breast	G
Stirs with the loving heart's unrest	G
A bitter cup each life must drain	P
The groaning earth is cursed with pain	P
And like the scroll the angel bore	B
The shuddering Hebrew seer before	B
O'erwrit alike without within	Q
With all the woes which follow sin	Q
But bitterest of the ills beneath	R
Whose load man totters down to death	S
Is that which plucks the regal crown	T
Of Freedom from his forehead down	T
And snatches from his powerless hand	G
The sceptred sign of self command	G
Effacing with the chain and rod	G
The image and the seal of God	G
Till from his nature day by day	G
The manly virtues fall away	G
And leave him naked blind and mute	G
The godlike merging in the brute	G
Why mourn the quiet ones who die	G
Beneath affection's tender eye	G
Unto their household and their kin	Q
Like ripened corn sheaves gathered in	Q
O weeper from that tranquil sod	G
That holy harvest home of God	G
Turn to the quick and suffering shed	G
Thy tears upon the living dead	G
Thank God above thy dear ones' graves	K
They sleep with Him they are not slaves	K
What dark mass down the mountain sides	U
Swift pouring like a stream divides	U
A long loose straggling caravan	F
Camel and horse and arm d man	F
The moon's low crescent glimmering o'er	V
Its grave of waters to the shore	B
Lights up that mountain cavalcade	G
And gleams from gun and spear and blade	G
Near and more near now o'er them falls	W
The shadow of the city walls	W
Hark to the sentry's challenge drowned	G
In the fierce trumpet's charging sound	G
The rush of men the musket's peal	D
The short sharp clang of meeting steel	D
Vain Moslem vain thy lifeblood poured	G
So freely on thy foeman's sword	G
Not to the swift nor to the strong	X
The battles of the right belong	X
For he who strikes for Freedom wears	Y
The armor of the captive's prayers	Y
And Nature proffers to his cause	Z
The strength of her eternal laws	A2
While he whose arm essays to bind	G
And herd with common brutes his kind	G
Strives evermore at fearful odds	B2
With Nature and the jealous gods	B2
And dares the dread recoil which late	G
Or soon their right shall vindicate	G
'T is done the horn d crescent falls	W
The star flag flouts the broken walls	W
Joy to the captive husband joy	C2
To thy sick heart O brown locked boy	C2
In sullen wrath the conquered Moor	A
Wide open flings your dungeon door	B
And leaves ye free from cell and chain	P
The owners of yourselves again	D2
Dark as his allies desert born	E2
Soiled with the battle's stain and worn	E2
With the long marches of his band	G
Through hottest wastes of rock and sand	G
Scorched by the sun and furnace breath	S
Of the red desert's wind of death	S
With welcome words and grasping hands	F2
The victor and deliverer stands	F2
The tale is one of distant skies	N
The dust of half a century lies	N
Upon it yet its hero's name	G2
Still lingers on the lips of Fame	G2
Men speak the praise of him who gave	H2
Deliverance to the Moorman's slave	H2
Yet dare to brand with shame and crime	I2
The heroes of our land and time	I2
The self forgetful ones who stake	J2
Home name and life for Freedom's sake	J2
God mend his heart who cannot feel	D
The impulse of a holy zeal	D
And sees not with his sordid eyes	N
The beauty of self sacrifice	K2
Though in the sacred place he stands	F2
Uplifting consecrated hands	F2
Unworthy are his lips to tell	D
Of Jesus' martyr miracle	D
Or name aright that dread embrace	L2
Of suffering for a fallen race	L2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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