PROEM.

I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through,

The songs of Spenser's golden days,

Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase,

Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew.

Yet, vainly in my quiet hours

To breathe their marvellous notes I try;

I feel them, as the leaves and flowers

In silence feel the dewy showers,

And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky.

The rigor of a frozen clime,

The harshness of an untaught ear,

The jarring words of one whose rhyme

Beat often Labor's hurried time,

Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, are here.

Of mystic beauty, dreamy grace,

No rounded art the lack supplies;

Unskilled the subtle lines to trace

Or softer shades of Nature's face,

I view her common forms with unanointed eyes.

Nor mine the seer-like power to show

The secrets of the heart and mind;

To drop the plummet-line below

Our common world of joy and woe,

A more intense despair or brighter hope to find.

Yet here at least an earnest sense

Of human right and weal is shown;

A hate of tyranny intense,

And hearty in its vehemence,

As if my brother's pain and sorrow were my own.

Oh Freedom! if to me belong

Nor mighty Milton's gift divine,

Nor Marvel's wit and graceful song,

Still with a love as deep and strong

As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy shrine!

AMESBURY, 11th mo., 1847.

ADDRESS, WRITTEN FOR THE OPENING OF "PENNSYLVANIA HALL,"
CLERICAL OPPRESSORS,

LINES, FROM A LETTER TO A YOUNG CLERICAL FRIEND,
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12TH MONTH OF 1845,

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LINES, WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE "FIRST

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LINES, WRITTEN FOR THE MEETING OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
AT CHATHAM STREET CHAPEL, N. Y., 1834,.
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OF BRITISH EMANCIPATION, 1837,.

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LINES, WRITTEN ON READING Gov. RITNER'S MESSAGE OF 1836,
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THE MASS. GENERAL ASSOCIATION, 1837,

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LINES, WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF A FRIEND,

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THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER To Her DaugHTERS

THE NEW YEAR: ADDRESSED TO THE PATRONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA

THE WORLD'S CONVENTION OF THE FRIENDS OF EMANCIPATION, HELD

IN LONDON, IN 1840,

ممکن.

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THE YANKEE Girl,

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TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE,

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TO FANEUIL HALL,•

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TO MASSACHUSETTS. WRITTEN DURING THE PENDING OF THE TEXAS

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FOLLEN. ON READING HIS ESSAY ON THE "FUTURE STATE,"

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LINES, ACCOMPANYING MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED TO A FRIEND,
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SEVERAL PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED BY

CLERGYMEN AGAINST THE ABOLITION OF THE GALLOWS,.
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