Page:Poems written during the progress of the abolition question in the United States.djvu/60

 For scorned and broken laws— For honor and the right— For staked and periled cause Of liberty and light. For holy eyes above On a world of evil cast— For the of our love— For the of the past! Worthy of are ye— The Pilgrim wives who dared The waste and unknown sea, And the hunter's perils shared. Worthy of her, whose mind Triumphant over all, Ruler nor priest could bind, Nor banishment appal. Worthy of her who died Martyr of Freedom, where Your 'Common's' verdant pride Opens to sun and air: Upheld at that dread hour By strength which could not fail; Before whose holy power, Bigot and priest turned pale.