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68 started again on our gloomy way, having no guide but the. We continued to travel by night, and secrete ourselves in the woods by day; and every night, before emerging from our hiding-place, we would anxiously look for our friend and leader—the. And in the language of Pierpont we might have exclaimed,

"Star of the North! while blazing day

Pours round me its full tide of light,

And hides thy pale but faithful ray,

I, too, lie hid, and long for night.

For night;—I dare not walk at noon,

Nor dare I trust the faithless moon,

Nor faithless man, whose burning lust

For gold hath riveted my chain;

No other leader can I trust

But thee, of even the starry train;

For, all the host around thee burning,

Like faithless man, keep turning, turning.

In the dark top of southern pines

I nestled, when the driver's horn

Called to the field, in lengthening lines,

My fellows, at the break of morn.

And there I lay, till thy sweet face

Looked in upon my 'hiding place,'

Star of the North!

Thy light, that no poor slave deceiveth,

Shall set me free."