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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
l sunset land! On they come, the free battalions! East and West and North they come, And the heart-beat of the millions Is the beat of Freedom's drum. “To the tyrant's plot no favor! No heed to place-fed knaves! Bar and bolt the door forever Against the land of slaves!” Hear it, mother Earth, and hear it, The heavens above us spread! The land is roused,—its spirit Was sleeping, but not dead! 1844. New Hampshire. God bless New Hampshire! from her granite peaks Once more the voice of Stark and Langdon speaks. The long-bound vassal of the exulting South For very shame her self-forged chain has broken; Torn the black seal of slavery from her mouth, And in the clear tones of her old time spoken! Oh, all undreamed-of, all unhoped — for changes! The tyrant's ally proves his sternest foe; To all his biddings, from her mountain ranges, New Hampshire thunders an indignant No! Who is it now despairs? Oh, faint of heart, Look upward to those Northern mountains cold, Flouted by Freed