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READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL	A
FEBRUARY IN MEMORY OF DR SAMUEL G HOWE	B
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I	-
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LEADER of armies Israel's God	C
Thy soldier's fight is won	D
Master whose lowly path he trod	C
Thy servant's work is done	D
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No voice is heard from Sinai's steep	E
Our wandering feet to guide	F
From Horeb's rock no waters leap	E
No Jordan's waves divide	F
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No prophet cleaves our western sky	-
On wheels of whirling fire	G
No shepherds hear the song on high	-
Of heaven's angelic choir	G
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Yet here as to the patriarch's tent	H
God's angel comes a guest	I
He comes on heaven's high errand sent	H
In earth's poor raiment drest	H
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We see no halo round his brow	B
Till love its own recalls	J
And like a leaf that quits the bough	B
The mortal vesture falls	J
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In autumn's chill declining day	H
Ere winter's killing frost	H
The message came so passed away	H
The friend our earth has lost	H
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Still Father in thy love we trust	H
Forgive us if we mourn	K
The saddening hour that laid in dust	H
His robe of flesh outworn	K
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II	-
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How long the wreck strewn journey seems	L
To reach the far off past	H
That woke his youth from peaceful dreams	L
With Freedom's trumpet blast	H
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Along her classic hillsides rung	M
The Paynim's battle cry	-
And like a red cross knight he sprung	M
For her to live or die	-
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No trustier service claimed the wreath	N
For Sparta's bravest son	K
No truer soldier sleeps beneath	N
The mound of Marathon	K
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Yet not for him the warrior's grave	O
In front of angry foes	P
To lift to shield to help to save	O
The holier task he chose	P
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He touched the eyelids of the blind	H
And lo the veil withdrawn	K
As o'er the midnight of the mind	H
He led the light of dawn	K
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He asked not whence the fountains roll	Q
No traveller's foot has found	H
But mapped the desert of the soul	Q
Untracked by sight or sound	H
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What prayers have reached the sapphire throne	K
By silent fingers spelt	H
For him who first through depths unknown	K
His doubtful pathway felt	H
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Who sought the slumbering sense that lay	H
Close shut with bolt and bar	R
And showed awakening thought the ray	H
Of reason's morning star	R
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Where'er he moved his shadowy form	S
The sightless orbs would seek	T
And smiles of welcome light and warm	S
The lips that could not speak	T
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No labored line no sculptor's art	H
Such hallowed memory needs	U
His tablet is the human heart	H
His record loving deeds	U
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III	-
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The rest that earth denied is thine	K
Ah is it rest we ask	V
Or traced by knowledge more divine	K
Some larger nobler task	V
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Had but those boundless fields of blue	W
One darkened sphere like this	X
But what has heaven for thee to do	W
In realms of perfect bliss	X
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No cloud to lift no mind to clear	Y
No rugged path to smooth	Z
No struggling soul to help and cheer	Y
No mortal grief to soothe	Z
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Enough is there a world of love	A2
No more we ask to know	K
The hand will guide thy ways above	A2
That shaped thy task below	K

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