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Show 52 For scorned and broken lawsFor honor and the rightFor staked and periled cause Of liberty anrl light. For holy eyes above On a world of evil cast- For the CHILDREN of our JoveFor the MOTHERS of the past! Worthy of THE>< are yc- 'rhc Pilgrim wives who dared The waste and uul,nown 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 hert 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. • Mrs. Hutchinson, who was banished from the l\lassachuactt1 Colony, as the ca!!iest me thod of coufuling: IH~f doctrines. t l\lary Dyer, the Quaker Martyr, who \\ .. :; hang.ed in Bn~;~on in 1659, for worshipping God according to the dictates other consc1ence. 53 God give ye strenath to run Unawed by ear~h or hell,' The race ye have begun So gloriously and wellUntil the trumpet call Of Freedom has gone forth, Wnh JOY and life to all The bondmen of the earth ! Until ntMOn.T.4..L l\IJND Unshackled walks abroad, And chains no longer bind TILe image of our God : Until no captive one 1\furmurs on land ~r wave i And, in his course, the sun Look~ down upon no SLATE! |