Anti-slavery poems : songs of labor and reform / by John Greenleaf Whittier [electronic text]
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Anti-slavery poems : songs of labor and reform / by John Greenleaf Whittier [electronic text]
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Whittier, John Greanleaf, 1807-1892
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[New York, N.Y.]: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1888
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THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME.
THE Quaker of the olden time!How calm and firm and true,Unspotted by its wrong and crime,He walked the dark earth through.The lust of power, the love of gain,The thousand lures of sinAround him, had no power to stainThe purity within.
With that deep insight which detectsAll great things in the small,And knows how each man's life affectsThe spiritual life of all,He walked by faith and not by sight,By love and not by law;The presence of the wrong or rightHe rather felt than saw.
He felt that wrong with wrong partakes,That nothing stands alone,That whoso gives the motive, makesHis brother's sin his own.
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And, pausing not for doubtful choiceOf evils great or small,He listened to that inward voiceWhich called away from all.
O Spirit of that early day,So pure and strong and true,Be with us in the narrow wayOur faithful fathers knew.Give strength the evil to forsake,The cross of Truth to bear,And love and reverent fear to makeOur daily lives a prayer!
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