The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2., Poems of Nature, Xi.

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And thus the sick man on his bed,
     The toiler to his task-work bound,
Behold their prison-walls outspread,
     Their clipped horizon widen round!
While freedom-giving fancy waits,
     Like Peter's angel at the gates,
The power is theirs to baffle care and pain,
     To bring the lost world back, and make it theirs again!

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

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