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The service of belief that faith ordains.

The mystery that reasoning doubt repels,

Lost dignity for fallen man regains:

Man, whom to free from death the Word that dwells In light of light came down on earth, all worlds excels.

XXII.

But transatlantic liberty with pride
Increases slaves, and multiplies her sects

Till freedom seems oppression: words divide
Those whom the bond of common faith connects.
Man for a shadow fights, and truth neglects.
Him, who devotion's genuine spirit feels
Faith from a vain logomachy protects :

Time will not stay for us his chariot-wheels;
It is enough to know what clearly Heaven reveals.

XXIII.

As the malaria rages where the air

Seems purest on the hills o'erlooking Rome,
Thus, where each citizen is deem'd the heir
Of liberty plague-spots of slavery come :
Nature has never written in her tome
That colour gives monopoly to "whites"
Of freedom freely through the forests roam
Beasts fair and tawny, having equal rights.
With others soars the black eagle to equal heights.

XXIV.

It is not colour of the skin, but vice,
That men imbrutes-the negro is a man,
A soul has of inestimable price

Ransom'd from death, deny it those who can
Doubt the full virtue of redemption's plan.
Capacities are in the colour'd race,
Though narrow seems of intellect their span,
That when improved, and visited by grace
Supernal, will with zeal religious truths embrace.

XXV.

How long shall this anomaly endure,
Opposed to Nature's universal scheme?
Can good produce thus evil? From the pure
Fountain shall issue forth a poisonous stream
That enemies of virtue may blaspheme?
Though planters in the southern states are fear'd,
Slavery is the indignant preacher's theme;

Thy voice at length, Humanity, is heard,
E'en where as yet thy cause most hopeless had appear'd.

XXVI.

Those who would nations aggrandize, the wind But sow, the whirlwind reap; some empires have A more prolong'd existence, others find,

Ere a few centuries pass by, their grave:

When gone, rolls o'er them equally thy wave,

Eternity! where now the counsels deep
Of statesmen deem'd omnipotent to save?
All these, as if they were an useless heap
Of senile tales, away time ruthless loves to sweep.

XXVII.

Alas! is profitless the working brain
Of the sagacious counsellor? the lot
Of all must be oblivion-why complain?
There is a world where envy settleth not,

That blight of fame; where worth is ne'er forgot!
Where shall be disentangled by the mind

Of evil here the inextricable knot;

Where glittering show of virtue does not blind

The good, where those are known who loved indeed mankind.

XXVIII.

There is the germ of virtue, that has been

Imperfectly developed here, matured.

Many, whose merits are on earth unseen,

Shall have their generous wishes thought-immured
Changed into active good, in heaven secured.
And there shall be, conforming minds among,
Fruition of enduring fame assured,
And love in energy of action strong,

And joys intense exprest by eloquence of song.

NOTES ON "AMERICA."

P. 142, 1. 7.

Meanwhile activity on restless wing.

"Sans cette fièvre de travail, sans cette tension perpétuelle de l'esprit vers les entreprises utiles et les spéculations, sans cette indifférence pour les plaisirs, sans ces idées politiques et religieuses qui répriment impérieusement toutes les passions dont le but n'est pas de travailler, de produire, de gagner, croit-on que les Américains eussent accompli leurs prouesses industrielles ? Avec un autre système moins exclusif pour la production, ils en seraient peut-être encore à projeter de franchir les Alléghanys."—Lettres sur l'Amérique du Nord, par CHEVALIER, tome i. p. 349, duod. ed.

P. 143, 1. 10.

When all particular interests are bound.

"La politique étrangère de la démocratie américaine est profondement égoïste, c'est que l'ambition nationale est le propre des nations qui grandissent."-CHEVALIER, tome ii. p. 412.

"L'habitant s'attache à chacun des intérêts de son pays comme aux siens mêmes. Il se glorifie de la gloire de la nation dans les succès qu'elle obtient, il croit reconnaitre son propre ouvrage et il s'en élève ; il se réjouit de la prospérité générale dont il profite. Il a pour sa patrie un sentiment analogue à celui qu'on éprouve pour sa famille; et c'est encore par une sorte d'egoïsme qu'il s'intéresse à l'état."De la Démocratie en Amérique, par ALEXIS DE TOCqueville, tome p. 158.

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P. 144, 1. 1.

It is the home-religion's gentle sway.

"La liberté voit dans la religion la compagne de ses luttes et de ses triomphes; le berceau de son enfance, la source divine de ses droits. Elle considère la religion comme la sauve-garde des mœurs; les mœurs comme la garantie des lois, et le gage de sa propre durée."-De la Démocratie en Amérique par ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, tome i. p. 71.

P. 145, 1. 10.

Affections, language, principles, the same.

66 Il y a un fait qui facilite admirablement aux Etats Unis l'existence du gouvernement fédéral. Les différens états ont non-seulement les mêmes intérêts, à-peu-près la même origine et la même langue, mais encore le même degré de la civilisation; ce qui rend presque toujours l'accord entre eux une chose facile."-De la Démocratie en Amérique, par ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, tome i. p. 286.

"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.

With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles."-Farewell Address of WASHINGTON to the People of the United States, 1796.

P. 148, 1. 12.

"Faith from a vain logomachy protects."

"But this is that close kept palladium,
Which once removed brings ruin evermore:
This stirr'd, makes men foresettled, to become
Curious to know what was believ'd before:
Whilst faith disputes that used to be dumb;
And more men strive to talk, than to adore."

DANIEL.

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