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    Poems in Wartime Part 4 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Poems in Wartime Part 4 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Poems in Wartime Part 4 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Title: Poems in Wartime From Volume III., The Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

      Release Date: December 2005 [EBook #9578] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 15, 2003]

      Edition: 10

      Language: English

      *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, POEMS WARTIME ***

      This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net]

      ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS

      SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM

      BY

      JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      CONTENTS:

      IN WAR TIME. TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWALL THY WILL BE DONE A WORD FOR THE HOUR EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT TO JOHN C. FREMONT THE WATCHERS TO ENGLISHMEN MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS AT PORT ROYAL ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862 OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, S. C. THE PROCLAMATION ANNIVERSARY POEM BARBARA FRIETCHIE HAT THE BIRDS SAID THE MANTLE OF ST. JOHN DE MATRA LADS DEO! HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION AT NEWBURYPORT

      IN WAR TIME.

      TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWAll, OF MELROSE.

      These lines to my old friends stood as dedication in the volume which contained a collection of pieces under the general title of In War Time. The group belonging distinctly under that title I have retained here; the other pieces in the volume are distributed among the appropriate divisions.

      OLOR ISCANUS queries: "Why should we

      Vex at the land's ridiculous miserie?"

      So on his Usk banks, in the blood-red dawn

      Of England's civil strife, did careless Vaughan

      Bemock his times. O friends of many years!

      Though faith and trust are stronger than our fears,

      And the signs promise peace with liberty,

      Not thus we trifle with our country's tears

      And sweat of agony. The future's gain

      Is certain as God's truth; but, meanwhile, pain

      Is bitter and tears are salt: our voices take

      A sober tone; our very household songs

      Are heavy with a nation's griefs and wrongs;

      And innocent mirth is chastened for the sake

      Of the brave hearts that nevermore shall beat,

      The eyes that smile no more, the unreturning

      feet!

      1863

      THY WILL BE DONE.

      WE see not, know not; all our way

      Is night,—with Thee alone is day

      From out the torrent's troubled drift,

      Above the storm our prayers we lift,

      Thy will be done!

      The flesh may fail, the heart may faint,

      But who are we to make complaint,

      Or dare to plead, in

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