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What though the Accused upon his own appeal	A
To righteous Gods when man has ceased to feel	A
Or at a doubting Judge's stern command	B
Before the Stone of Power no longer stand	B
To take his sentence from the balanced Block	C
As at his touch it rocks or seems to rock	C
Though in the depths of sunless groves no more	D
The Druid priest the hallowed Oak adore	D
Yet for the Initiate rocks and whispering trees	E
Do still perform mysterious offices	F
And functions dwell in beast and bird that sway	G
The reasoning mind or with the fancy play	G
Inviting at all seasons ears and eyes	H
To watch for undelusive auguries	H
Not uninspired appear their simplest ways	H
Their voices mount symbolical of praise	H
To mix with hymns that Spirits make and hear	I
And to fallen man their innocence is dear	J
Enraptured Art draws from those sacred springs	H
Streams that reflect the poetry of things	H
Where Christian Martyrs stand in hues portrayed	K
That might a wish avail would never fade	K
Borne in their hands the lily and the palm	L
Shed round the altar a celestial calm	L
There too behold the lamb and guileless dove	M
Prest in the tenderness of virgin love	M
To saintly bosoms Glorious is the blending	N
Of right affections climbing or descending	N
Along a scale of light and life with cares	H
Alternate carrying holy thoughts and prayers	H
Up to the sovereign seat of the Most High	O
Descending to the worm in charity	P
Like those good Angels whom a dream of night	Q
Gave in the field of Luz to Jacob's sight	Q
All while 'he' slept treading the pendent stairs	H
Earthward or heavenward radiant messengers	H
That with a perfect will in one accord	R
Of strict obedience serve the Almighty Lord	R
And with untired humility forbore	J
To speed their errand by the wings they wore	J
What a fair world were ours for verse to paint	S
If Power could live at ease with self restraint	S
Opinion bow before the naked sense	H
Of the great Vision faith in Providence	H
Merciful over all his creatures just	T
To the least particle of sentient dust	T
But fixing by immutable decrees	H
Seedtime and harvest for his purposes	H
Then would be closed the restless oblique eye	O
That looks for evil like a treacherous spy	O
Disputes would then relax like stormy winds	H
That into breezes sink impetuous minds	H
By discipline endeavour to grow meek	U
As Truth herself whom they profess to seek	U
Then Genius shunning fellowship with Pride	V
Would braid his golden locks at Wisdom's side	V
Love ebb and flow untroubled by caprice	H
And not alone 'harsh' tyranny would cease	H
But unoffending creatures find release	H
From qualified oppression whose defense	H
Rests on a hollow plea of recompense	H
Thought tempered wrongs for each humane respect	W
Oft worse to bear or deadlier in effect	W
Witness those glances of indignant scorn	X
From some high minded Slave impelled to spurn	Y
The kindness that would make him less forlorn	X
Or if the soul to bondage be subdued	Z
His look of pitiable gratitude	Z
Alas for thee bright Galaxy of Isles	H
Whose day departs in pomp returns with smiles	H
To greet the flowers and fruitage of a land	B
As the sun mounts by sea born breezes fanned	B
A land whose azure mountain tops are seats	H
For Gods in council whose green vales retreats	H
Fit for the shades of heroes mingling there	J
To breathe Elysian peace in upper air	J
Though cold as winter gloomy as the grave	A2
Stone walls a prisoner make but not a slave	A2
Shall man assume a property in man	B2
Lay on the moral will a withering ban	B2
Shame that our laws at distance still protect	W
Enormities which they at home reject	W
Slaves cannot breathe in England yet that boast	C2
Is but a mockery when from coast to coast	C2
Though 'fettered' slave be none her floors and soil	D2
Groan underneath a weight of slavish toil	D2
For the poor Many measured out by rules	H
Fetched with cupidity from heartless schools	H
That to an Idol falsely called the Wealth	E2
Of Nations sacrifice a People's health	E2
Body and mind and soul a thirst so keen	F2
Is ever urging on the vast machine	F2
Of sleepless Labour 'mid whose dizzy wheels	H
The Power least prized is that which thinks and feels	H
Then for the pastimes of this delicate age	G2
And all the heavy or light vassalage	G2
Which for their sakes we fasten as may suit	H2
Our varying moods on human kind or brute	H2
'Twere well in little as in great to pause	H
Lest Fancy trifle with eternal laws	H
Not from his fellows only man may learn	Y
Rights to compare and duties to discern	Y
All creatures and all objects in degree	J
Are friends and patrons of humanity	J
There are to whom the garden grove and field	I2
Perpetual lessons of forbearance yield	I2
Who would not lightly violate the grace	H
The lowliest flower possesses in its place	H
Nor shorten the sweet life too fugitive	J2
Which nothing less than Infinite Power could give	J2

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