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, ask the tattoo'd Indian where
 * The God worships deigns to live—

Go, ask the untaught savage, where—
 * And mark the answer he shall give!

He'll tell you that there's not a place,
 * Above, below, or all around,

But if ye, sorrowing, seek His face,
 * The God of Mercy may be found I

There 's not a planet in the sky
 * But lighteth where "the Spirit" lives;

There's not a zephyr murmurs by
 * But whispers of the peace He gives;

There's nothing in the heavens or earth,
 * The mighty ocean or the air,

Or aught from either has its birth,
 * But His Omnipotence declare!

Then, Christian, kneel, bow low thy head,
 * And think on what the savage said.

A tongue is oiled by bad intention, and set in motion by deceit.