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on high the scaffold altar! all the world will turn to see

How a man has dared to suffer that his brothers may be free!

Hear it on some hill-side looking North and South and East and West,

Where the wind from every quarter fresh may blow upon his breast,

And the sun look down unshaded from the chill December sky,

Glad to shine upon the hero who for Freedom dared to die!

All the world will turn to see him;—from the pines of wave-washed Maine

To the golden rivers rolling over California's plain,

And from clear Superior's waters, where the wild swan loves to sail,

To the Gulf-lands, summer-bosomed, fanned by ocean's softest gale,—

Every heart will beat the faster in its sorrow or. its scorn,

For the man nor courts nor prisons can annoy another morn!

And from distant climes and nations men shall westward gaze, and say,

"He who perilled all for Freedom on the scaffold dies to-day."

Never offering was richer, nor did temple fairer rise

For the gods serenely smiling from the blue Olympian skies;

Porphyry or granite column did not statelier cleave the air

Than the posts of yonder gallows with the cross-beam waiting there;

And the victim, wreathed and crowned, not for Dian nor for Jove,

But for Liberty and Manhood, comes, the sacrifice of Love.

They may hang him on the gibbet; they may raise the victor's cry,

When they see him darkly swinging like a speck against the sky;—

Ah! the dying of a hero, that the right may win its way,

Is but sowing seed for harvest in a warm and mellow May!