. When she makes up her jewels, what cares yon good town For the Baptist of Wayland, the Quaker of Brown? And this green, favored island, so fresh and sea-blown, When she counts up the worthies her annals have known, Never waits for the pitiful gaugers of sect To measure her love, and mete out her respect. Three shades at this moment seem walking her strand, Each with head halo-crowned, and with palms in his hand,— Wise Berkeley, grave Hopkins, and, smiling serene On prelate and puritan, Channing is seen. One holy name bearing, no longer they need Credentials of party, and pass-words of creed: The new song they sing hath a threefold accord, And they own one baptism, one faith, and one Lord! But the golden sands run out: occasions like these Glide swift into shadow, like sails on the seas: While we sport with the mosses and pebbles ashore, They lessen and fade, and we see them no more. Forgive me, dear friends, if my vagrant thoughts seem Like a school-boy's who idles and plays wi
ther of Mercy, The, IV. 251.
Brown Dwarf of Rugen, The, i. 421.
Brown of Ossawatomie, IV. 106.
Bryant on his Birthday, IV. 113.
Burial of Barber, III. 181.
Burning Drift-Wood, IV. 298.
Burns, IV. 92.
By their Works, II. 326.
Cable Hymn, The, IV. 269.
Calef in Boston, III. 332.
Call of the Christian, The, II. 193.
Captain's Well, The, IV. 289.
Cassandra Southwick, i. 65.
Centennial Hymn, IV. 205.
Chalkley Hall, IV. 35.
Changeling, The, IV. 255.
Channing, IV. 42.
Chapel of the Hermits, The, i. 126.
Charity, IV. 332.
Chicago, IV. 195.
Child-Songs, II. 306.
Christian Slave, The, III. 86.
Christian Tourists, The, III. 324.
Christmas Carmen, A, II. 304.
Christmas of 1888, The, IV. 285.
Cities of the Plain, The, II. 191.
Clear Vision, The, II. 286.
Clerical Oppressors, III. 38.
Cobbler Keezar's Vision, i. 241.
Common Question, The, II. 271.
Conductor Bradley, i. 359.
Conquest of Finland, The, III. 350