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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
now seeming to threaten the female character with widespread and permanent injury. So, this is all,—the utmost reach Of priestly power the mind to fetter! When laymen think, when women preach, A war of words, a ‘Pastoral Letter!’ Now, shame upon ye, parish Popes! Was it thus with those, your predecessors, Who sealed with racks, and fire; and ropes Their loving-kindness to transgressors? A ‘ Pastoral Letter,’ grave and dull; Alas! in hoof and horns and features, How different is your Brookfield bull From him who bellows from St. Peter's! Your pastoral rights and powers from harm, Think ye, can words alone preserve them? Your wiser fathers taught the arm And sword of temporal power to serve them. Oh, glorious days, when Church and State Were wedded by your spiritual fathers! And on submissive shoulders sat Your Wilsons and your Cotton Mathers. No vile ‘itinerant ’ then could mar The beauty of your tranquil Zion, But at his peril of the scar Of hangman's whip and branding-i