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 Of human kind sole tenant of the wild, The lordly savage reigned, and urged the chase, Of useful toil impatient; or, when war Roused his dark passions, from his ambuscade Treacherous he darted, and, with horrid yell, Vengeful and unrelenting scalped his foe. No peaceful Home was then. The dingy squaw, The menial of her lord, now left to guard The smoky wigwam, now with blows compelled Him vagrant to attend with weary load, Dragged out, a semi-brute, her wretched life.

For man, for woman, God all-good ordained A worthier destiny. By sacred ties, In household life and harmony of love He formed them to be joined; society Made sure by nature's law; and so decreed That states and kingdoms should successive rise; That mind with mind in sympathy should wake New energies, the needs of men impel To foster arts, and search creation through