Happy Birthday, John Greenleaf Whittier - poet, abolitionist, patriot. Look to it well, Virginians! In calmness we have borne, In answer to our faith and trust, your insult and your scorn; Youve spurned our kindest counsels; youve hunted for our lives; And shaken round our hearths and homes your manacles and gyves! We wage no war, we lift no arm, we fling no torch within The fire-damps of the quaking mine beneath your soil of sin; We leave ye with your bondmen, to wrestle, while ye can. With the strong upward tendencies and godlike soul of man! But for us and for our children, the vow which we have given For freedom and humanity is registered in heaven; No slave-hunt in our borders, — no pirate on our strand! No fetters in the Bay State, —no slave upon our land! -- from Massachusetts to Virginia 1843.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:11:59 +0000
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