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O Mother Earth upon thy lap	A
Thy weary ones receiving	B
And o'er them silent as a dream	C
Thy grassy mantle weaving	B
Fold softly in thy long embrace	D
That heart so worn and broken	E
And cool its pulse of fire beneath	F
Thy shadows old and oaken	E
	-
Shut out from him the bitter word	G
And serpent hiss of scorning	B
Nor let the storms of yesterday	H
Disturb his quiet morning	B
Breathe over him forgetfulness	D
Of all save deeds of kindness	D
And save to smiles of grateful eyes	D
Press down his lids in blindness	D
	-
There where with living ear and eye	I
He heard Potomac's flowing	B
And through his tall ancestral trees	D
Saw autumn's sunset glowing	B
He sleeps still looking to the west	J
Beneath the dark wood shadow	K
As if he still would see the sun	E
Sink down on wave and meadow	K
	-
Bard Sage and Tribune in himself	L
All moods of mind contrasting	B
The tenderest wail of human woe	K
The scorn like lightning blasting	B
The pathos which from rival eyes	D
Unwilling tears could summon	E
The stinging taunt the fiery burst	M
Of hatred scarcely human	E
	-
Mirth sparkling like a diamond shower	N
From lips of life long sadness	D
Clear picturings of majestic thought	O
Upon a ground of madness	D
And over all Romance and Song	B
A classic beauty throwing	B
And laurelled Clio at his side	P
Her storied pages showing	B
	-
All parties feared him each in turn	E
Beheld its schemes disjointed	Q
As right or left his fatal glance	D
And spectral finger pointed	R
Sworn foe of Cant he smote it down	E
With trenchant wit unsparing	B
And mocking rent with ruthless hand	S
The robe Pretence was wearing	B
	-
Too honest or too proud to feign	E
A love he never cherished	T
Beyond Virginia's border line	E
His patriotism perished	T
While others hailed in distant skies	D
Our eagle's dusky pinion	E
He only saw the mountain bird	G
Stoop o'er his Old Dominion	E
	-
Still through each change of fortune strange	U
Racked nerve and brain all burning	B
His loving faith in Mother land	S
Knew never shade of turning	B
By Britain's lakes by Neva's tide	P
Whatever sky was o'er him	V
He heard her rivers' rushing sound	W
Her blue peaks rose before him	V
	-
He held his slaves yet made withal	X
No false and vain pretences	D
Nor paid a lying priest to seek	B
For Scriptural defences	D
His harshest words of proud rebuke	B
His bitterest taunt and scorning	B
Fell fire like on the Northern brow	Y
That bent to him in fawning	B
	-
He held his slaves yet kept the while	X
His reverence for the Human	E
In the dark vassals of his will	X
He saw but Man and Woman	E
No hunter of God's outraged poor	Z
His Roanoke valley entered	G
No trader in the souls of men	E
Across his threshold ventured	G
	-
And when the old and wearied man	E
Lay down for his last sleeping	B
And at his side a slave no more	A2
His brother man stood weeping	B
His latest thought his latest breath	B2
To Freedom's duty giving	B
With failing tongue and trembling hand	S
The dying blest the living	B
	-
Oh never bore his ancient State	C2
A truer son or braver	N
None trampling with a calmer scorn	E
On foreign hate or favor	N
He knew her faults yet never stooped	D2
His proud and manly feeling	B
To poor excuses of the wrong	B
Or meanness of concealing	B
	-
But none beheld with clearer eye	I
The plague spot o'er her spreading	B
None heard more sure the steps of Doom	E2
Along her future treading	B
For her as for himself he spake	B
When his gaunt frame upbracing	B
He traced with dying hand 'Remorse '	-
And perished in the tracing	B
	-
As from the grave where Henry sleeps	D
From Vernon's weeping willow	X
And from the grassy pall which hides	D
The Sage of Monticello	X
So from the leaf strewn burial stone	E
Of Randolph's lowly dwelling	B
Virginia o'er thy land of slaves	D
A warning voice is swelling	B
	-
And hark from thy deserted fields	D
Are sadder warnings spoken	E
From quenched hearths where thy exiled sons	D
Their household gods have broken	E
The curse is on thee wolves for men	E
And briers for corn sheaves giving	B
Oh more than all thy dead renown	E
Were now one hero living	B

John Greenleaf Whittier

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