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When the roused popular ocean foamed France is too poor to pay alone

and chafed,

And vulture War from his Imaus Snuffed blood, to summon homely Peace,

And show that only order is release.

To carve thy fullest thought, what though

Time was not granted? Aye in history,

Like that Dawn's face which baffled Angelo

Left shapeless, grander for its mystery,

Thy great Design shall stand, and day

Flood its blind front from Orients far away.

Who says thy day is o'er? Control,

My heart, that bitter first emotion; While men shall reverence the steadfast soul,

The heart in silent self-devotion Breaking, the mild, heroic mien, Thou 'It need no prop of marble, Lamartine.

If France reject thee, 't is not thine,

But her own, exile that she utters; Ideal France, the deathless, the divine, Will be where thy white pennon flutters,

As once the nobler Athens went With Aristides into banishment.

No fitting metewand hath To-day

For measuring spirits of thy stat

ure;

Only the Future can reach up to lay
The laurel on that lofty nature,
Bard, who with some diviner art
Hast touched the bard's true lyre, a na-
tion's heart.

Swept by thy hand, the gladdened chords,

Crashed now in discords fierce by others,

Gave forth one note beyond all skill of words,

And chimed together, We are broth

ers.

O poem unsurpassed! it ran

The service of that ample spirit; Paltry seem low dictatorship and throne, If balanced with thy simple merit. They had to thee been rust and loss; Thy aim was higher, -thou hast climbed a Cross!

TO JOHN G. PALFREY.

THERE are who triumph in a losing

cause,

Who can put on defeat, as 't were a wreath

Unwithering in the adverse popular breath,

Safe from the blasting demagogue's applause;

"T is they who stand for Freedom and God's laws.

And so stands Palfrey now, as Marvell stood,

Loyal to Truth dethroned, nor could be wooed

To trust the playful tiger's velvet

paws:

And if the second Charles brought in decay

Of ancient virtue, if it well might

wring Souls that had broadened 'neath a nobler day,

To see a losel, marketable king Fearfully watering with his realm's best blood

Cromwell's quenched bolts, that erst had cracked and flamed, Scaring, through all their depths of courtier mud,

Europe's crowned bloodsuckers, how more ashamed Ought we to be, who see Corruption's flood

Still rise o'er last year's mark, to mine away

Our brazen idols' feet of treacherous clay!

O utter degradation! Freedom turned Slavery's vile bawd, to cozen and be

tray

To the old lecher's clutch a maiden prey,

All round the world, unlocking man to If so

man.

a loathsome pander's fee be earned !

And we are silent, we who daily, O for a whiff of Naseby, that would

tread

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Such earnest natures are the fiery pith, The compact nucleus, round which

systems grow!

Mass after mass becomes inspired therewith,

And whirls impregnate with the central glow.

O Truth! O Freedom! how are ye still

born

In the rude stable, in the manger nursed!

What humble hands unbar those gates of morn

Through which the splendors of the
New Day burst!

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