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[340] Free from its bonds the mind,
     The body from the rod;
Broken all chains that bind
     The image of our God.

Just men no longer pine
     Behind their prison-bars;
Through the rent dungeon shine
     The free sun and the stars.

Earth own, at last, untrod
     By sect, or caste, or clan,
The fatherhood of God,
     The brotherhood of man!

Fraud fail, craft perish, forth
     The money-changers driven,
And God's will done on earth,
     As now in heaven!

1852.

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