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THE wave is breaking on the shore	A
The echo fading from the chime	B
Again the shadow moveth o'er	C
The dial plate of time	B
O seer seen Angel waiting now	D
With weary feet on sea and shore	A
Impatient for the last dread vow	D
That time shall be no more	A
Once more across thy sleepless eye	E
The semblance of a smile has passed	F
The year departing leaves more nigh	E
Time's fearfullest and last	F
Oh in that dying year hath been	G
The sum of all since time began	H
The birth and death the joy and pain	I
Of Nature and of Man	H
Spring with her change of sun and shower	C
And streams released from Winter's chain	I
And bursting bud and opening flower	C
And greenly growing grain	I
And Summer's shade and sunshine warm	J
And rainbows o'er her hill tops bowed	K
And voices in her rising storm	J
God speaking from His cloud	K
And Autumn's fruits and clustering sheaves	L
And soft warm days of golden light	M
The glory of her forest leaves	L
And harvest moon at night	M
And Winter with her leafless grove	N
And prisoned stream and drifting snow	O
The brilliance of her heaven above	P
And of her earth below	O
And man in whom an angel's mind	Q
With earth's low instincts finds abode	R
The highest of the links which bind	Q
Brute nature to her God	S
His infant eye hath seen the light	M
His childhood's merriest laughter rung	T
And active sports to manlier might	M
The nerves of boyhood strung	T
And quiet love and passion's fires	U
Have soothed or burned in manhood's breast	V
And lofty aims and low desires	U
By turns disturbed his rest	V
The wailing of the newly born	W
Has mingled with the funeral knell	X
And o'er the dying's ear has gone	Y
The merry marriage bell	X
And Wealth has filled his halls with mirth	Z
While Want in many a humble shed	A2
Toiled shivering by her cheerless hearth	B2
The live long night for bread	A2
And worse than all the human slave	C2
The sport of lust and pride and scorn	W
Plucked off the crown his Maker gave	C2
His regal manhood gone	Y
Oh still my country o'er thy plains	D2
Blackened with slavery's blight and ban	H
That human chattel drags his chains	D2
An uncreated man	H
And still where'er to sun and breeze	E2
My country is thy flag unrolled	A2
With scorn the gazing stranger sees	E2
A stain on every fold	A2
Oh tear the gorgeous emblem down	F2
It gathers scorn from every eye	E
And despots smile and good men frown	F2
Whene'er it passes by	E
Shame shame its starry splendors glow	O
Above the slaver's loathsome jail	G2
Its folds are ruffling even now	D
His crimson flag of sale	G2
Still round our country's proudest hall	H2
The trade in human flesh is driven	I2
And at each careless hammer fall	H2
A human heart is riven	I2
And this too sanctioned by the men	J2
Vested with power to shield the right	A2
And throw each vile and robber den	J2
Wide open to the light	A2
Yet shame upon them there they sit	A2
Men of the North subdued and still	K2
Meek pliant poltroons only fit	A2
To work a master's will	K2
Sold bargained off for Southern votes	L2
A passive herd of Northern mules	M2
Just braying through their purchased throats	L2
Whate'er their owner rules	M2
And he the basest of the base	N2
The vilest of the vile whose name	O2
Embalmed in infinite disgrace	N2
Is deathless in its shame	O2
A tool to bolt the people's door	A
Against the people clamoring there	P2
An ass to trample on their floor	A
A people's right of prayer	P2
Nailed to his self made gibbet fast	A2
Self pilloried to the public view	Q2
A mark for every passing blast	A2
Of scorn to whistle through	Q2
There let him hang and hear the boast	A2
Of Southrons o'er their pliant tool	R2
A new Stylites on his post	A2
'Sacred to ridicule '	S2
Look we at home our noble hall	H2
To Freedom's holy purpose given	I2
Now rears its black and ruined wall	H2
Beneath the wintry heaven	I2
Telling the story of its doom	T2
The fiendish mob the prostrate law	U2
The fiery jet through midnight's gloom	T2
Our gazing thousands saw	U2
Look to our State the poor man's right	A2
Torn from him and the sons of those	V2
Whose blood in Freedom's sternest fight	A2
Sprinkled the Jersey snows	V2
Outlawed within the land of Penn	J2
That Slavery's guilty fears might cease	W2
And those whom God created men	J2
Toil on as brutes in peace	W2
Yet o'er the blackness of the storm	J
A bow of promise bends on high	E
And gleams of sunshine soft and warm	J
Break through our clouded sky	E
East West and North the shout is heard	A2
Of freemen rising for the right	A2
Each valley hath its rallying word	A2
Each hill its signal light	A2
O'er Massachusetts' rocks of gray	X2
The strengthening light of freedom shines	Y2
Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay	X2
And Vermont's snow hung pines	Y2
From Hudson's frowning palisades	Z2
To Alleghany's laurelled crest	A2
O'er lakes and prairies streams and glades	Z2
It shines upon the West	A2
Speed on the light to those who dwell	X
In Slavery's land of woe and sin	G
And through the blackness of that hell	X
Let Heaven's own light break in	G
So shall the Southern conscience quake	A3
Before that light poured full and strong	B3
So shall the Southern heart awake	A3
To all the bondman's wrong	B3
And from that rich and sunny land	A2
The song of grateful millions rise	C3
Like that of Israel's ransomed band	A2
Beneath Arabians skies	C3
And all who now are bound beneath	D3
Our banner's shade our eagle's wing	E3
From Slavery's night of moral death	F3
To light and life shall spring	E3
Broken the bondman's chain and gone	Y
The master's guilt and hate and fear	G3
And unto both alike shall dawn	Y
A New and Happy Year	G3

John Greenleaf Whittier

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