The sea-bound landsman, looking back to shore,
Now learns what land is highest:—not the ring
Of hills that erewhile shut out everything
Beyond them from him: these are seen no more;
Nor yet the loftier heights that, from the lower,
He saw far inland, blue, and, worship ping,
Believed they touched the sky; the gull’s white wing
Long since...
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John Brown OF OSSAWATOMIE spake on his dying day:
“I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery’s pay;
But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free,
With her children, from the gallows-stair put up a prayer for me!”John Brown of Ossawatomie, they led him out to die;
And lo! a poor slave-mother with her little child pressed nigh... -
Young Ben he was a nice young man,
A carpenter by trade;
And he fell in love with Sally Brown,
That was a lady’s maid.But as they fetched a walk one day,
They met a press-gang crew;
And Sally she did faint away,
Whilst Ben he was brought to.The boatswain swore with wicked words
Enough to shock a saint,...