The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3., Anti-Slavery Poems, The branded hand., page 115

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Anti-Slavery Poems

Toussaint L'ouverture.

The slave-ships.

The Yankee girl.

The hunters of men.

Stanzas for the times.

Clerical Oppressors.

To the Memory of Thomas Shipley .

The moral warfare.

The Pastoral Letter.

Pennsylvania Hall .

The world's convention

Massachusetts to Virginia .

The Christian slave.

The sentence of John L. Brown .

To Faneuil Hall .

To Massachusetts .

New Hampshire .

To a Southern statesman.

At Washington .

The branded hand.

The freed islands.

Song of slaves in the desert.

Randolph of Roanoke .

The lost statesman.

The slaves of Martinique .

The curse of the Charter-Breakers .

Lines on the Portrait of a Celebrated Publisher.

A Sabbath scene.

In the evil days.

Moloch in State street.

Official piety.

Arisen at last.

For Righteousness' sake.

The Kansas Emigrants.

Burial of Barber .

To Pennsylvania .

Le Marais du Cygne .

The pass of the Sierra .

A song for the time.

What of the day?

A song, inscribed to the Fremont Clubs .

On a prayer-book, with its Frontispiece, Ary Scheffer's Christus Consolator, Americanized by the Omission of the black man.

To William H. Seward .

Thy will be done.

A word for the hour.

Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott .

To John C. Fremont .

Mithridates at Chios .

Song of the Negro boatmen.

Astraea at the Capitol .

The battle Autumn of 1862 .

Hymn, sung at Christmas by the scholars of St. Helena's Island , S. C.

The Proclamation.

Anniversary poem.

Barbara Frietchie .

What the birds said.

The mantle of St . John de Matha .

Hymn for the Celebration of Emancipation at Newburyport .

To the Thirty-Ninth Congress.

The hive at Gettysburg .

Howard at Atlanta .

The Emancipation group.

The Jubilee Singers.

Songs of Labour and Reform

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Take it henceforth for your standard, like the Bruce's heart of yore,
In the dark strife closing round ye, let that hand be seen before!

And the masters of the slave-land shall tremble at that sign,
When it points its finger Southward along the Puritan line:
Can the craft of State avail them? Can a Christ-less church withstand,
In the van of Freedom's onset, the coming of that hand?

1846.

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888-89.

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