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I	A
FAR from his close and noisome cell	B
By grassy lane and sunny stream	C
Blown clover field and strawberry dell	B
And green and meadow freshness fell	B
The footsteps of his dream	C
Again from careless feet the dew	D
Of summer's misty morn he shook	E
Again with merry heart he threw	D
His light line in the rippling brook	E
Back crowded all his school day joys	F
He urged the ball and quoit again	G
And heard the shout of laughing boys	F
Come ringing down the walnut glen	G
Again he felt the western breeze	H
With scent of flowers and crisping hay	I
And down again through wind stirred trees	H
He saw the quivering sunlight play	I
An angel in home's vine hung door	J
He saw his sister smile once more	J
Once more the truant's brown locked head	K
Upon his mother's knees was laid	L
And sweetly lulled to slumber there	M
With evening's holy hymn and prayer	M
II	A
He woke At once on heart and brain	N
The present Terror rushed again	G
Clanked on his limbs the felon's chain	N
He woke to hear the church tower tell	B
Time's footfall on the conscious bell	B
And shuddering feel that clanging din	O
His life's last hour had ushered in	O
To see within his prison yard	P
Through the small window iron barred	P
The gallows shadow rising dim	Q
Between the sunrise heaven and him	Q
A horror in God's blessed air	M
A blackness in his morning light	R
Like some foul devil altar there	M
Built up by demon hands at night	R
And maddened by that evil sight	R
Dark horrible confused and strange	S
A chaos of wild weltering change	S
All power of check and guidance gone	T
Dizzy and blind his mind swept on	U
In vain he strove to breathe a prayer	M
In vain he turned the Holy Book	E
He only heard the gallows stair	M
Creak as the wind its timbers shook	E
No dream for him of sin forgiven	V
While still that baleful spectre stood	W
With its hoarse murmur 'Blood for Blood '	X
Between him and the pitying Heaven	V
III	A
Low on his dungeon floor he knelt	Y
And smote his breast and on his chain	N
Whose iron clasp he always felt	Y
His hot tears fell like rain	N
And near him with the cold calm look	E
And tone of one whose formal part	Z
Unwarmed unsoftened of the heart	Z
Is measured out by rule and book	E
With placid lip and tranquil blood	A2
The hangman's ghostly ally stood	W
Blessing with solemn text and word	B2
The gallows drop and strangling cord	C2
Lending the sacred Gospel's awe	D2
And sanction to the crime of Law	E2
IV	F2
He saw the victim's tortured brow	G2
The sweat of anguish starting there	M
The record of a nameless woe	H2
In the dim eye's imploring stare	M
Seen hideous through the long damp hair	M
Fingers of ghastly skin and bone	I2
Working and writhing on the stone	I2
And heard by mortal terror wrung	J2
From heaving breast and stiffened tongue	J2
The choking sob and low hoarse prayer	M
As o'er his half crazed fancy came	K2
A vision of the eternal flame	K2
Its smoking cloud of agonies	H
Its demon worm that never dies	L2
The everlasting rise and fall	M2
Of fire waves round the infernal wall	M2
While high above that dark red flood	A2
Black giant like the gallows stood	W
Two busy fiends attending there	M
One with cold mocking rite and prayer	M
The other with impatient grasp	N2
Tightening the death rope's strangling clasp	N2
V	F2
The unfelt rite at length was done	V
The prayer unheard at length was said	K
An hour had passed the noonday sun	V
Smote on the features of the dead	K
And he who stood the doomed beside	O2
Calm gauger of the swelling tide	O2
Of mortal agony and fear	P2
Heeding with curious eye and ear	Q2
Whate'er revealed the keen excess	R2
Of man's extremest wretchedness	R2
And who in that dark anguish saw	R2
An earnest of the victim's fate	S2
The vengeful terrors of God's law	R2
The kindlings of Eternal hate	S2
The first drops of that fiery rain	N
Which beats the dark red realm of pain	N
Did he uplift his earnest cries	R2
Against the crime of Law which gave	F2
His brother to that fearful grave	F2
Whereon Hope's moonlight never lies	R2
And Faith's white blossoms never wave	F2
To the soft breath of Memory's sighs	R2
Which sent a spirit marred and stained	T2
By fiends of sin possessed profaned	T2
In madness and in blindness stark	U2
Into the silent unknown dark	U2
No from the wild and shrinking dread	T2
With which he saw the victim led	T2
Beneath the dark veil which divides	R2
Ever the living from the dead	T2
And Nature's solemn secret hides	R2
The man of prayer can only draw	R2
New reasons for his bloody law	R2
New faith in staying Murder's hand	T2
By murder at that Law's command	T2
New reverence for the gallows rope	V2
As human nature's latest hope	V2
Last relic of the good old time	W2
When Power found license for its crime	W2
And held a writhing world in check	X2
By that fell cord about its neck	X2
Stifled Sedition's rising shout	T2
Choked the young breath of Freedom out	T2
And timely checked the words which sprung	J2
From Heresy's forbidden tongue	J2
While in its noose of terror bound	T2
The Church its cherished union found	T2
Conforming on the Moslem plan	Y2
The motley colored mind of man	Y2
Not by the Koran and the Sword	T2
But by the Bible and the Cord	T2
VI	F2
O Thou at whose rebuke the grave	F2
Back to warm life its sleeper gave	F2
Beneath whose sad and tearful glance	R2
The cold and chang d countenance	R2
Broke the still horror of its trance	R2
And waking saw with joy above	F2
A brother's face of tenderest love	F2
Thou unto whom the blind and lame	K2
The sorrowing and the sin sick came	K2
And from Thy very garment's hem	Z2
Drew life and healing unto them	Z2
The burden of Thy holy faith	A3
Was love and life not hate and death	B3
Man's demon ministers of pain	N
The fiends of his revenge were sent	T2
From thy pure Gospel's element	T2
To their dark home again	G
Thy name is Love What then is he	F2
Who in that name the gallows rears	R2
An awful altar built to Thee	F2
With sacrifice of blood and tears	R2
Oh once again Thy healing lay	I
On the blind eyes which knew Thee not	T2
And let the light of Thy pure day	I
Melt in upon his darkened thought	T2
Soften his hard cold heart and show	H2
The power which in forbearance lies	R2
And let him feel that mercy now	G2
Is better than old sacrifice	R2
VII	F2
As on the White Sea's charm d shore	J
The Parsee sees his holy hill	C3
With dunnest smoke clouds curtained o'er	D3
Yet knows beneath them evermore	J
The low pale fire is quivering still	C3
So underneath its clouds of sin	O
The heart of man retaineth yet	T2
Gleams of its holy origin	V
And half quenched stars that never set	T2
Dim colors of its faded bow	G2
And early beauty linger there	M
And o'er its wasted desert blow	H2
Faint breathings of its morning air	M
Oh never yet upon the scroll	E3
Of the sin stained but priceless soul	E3
Hath Heaven inscribed 'Despair '	X
Cast not the clouded gem away	I
Quench not the dim but living ray	I
My brother man Beware	M
With that deep voice which from the skies	R2
Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice	R2
God's angel cries Forbear	M

John Greenleaf Whittier

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