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Show 70 When smitten ns with fire from ~-leaven, Th: captive's chain shall ~ink m dust, And to his fettered soul be giVen 1 THE GLORIOUS FHF.EDOM OF 'fHB JUST . PLEAD FOlll THE SLAVE ! WRITTEN IN AN ALDUM. Oh, Woman! from thy happy hearth, Extend thy gentle hand to save The poor and perishing of earthThe chained and stricken slave ! Oh! plead for all the sufferings of thy kindFor the crushed body and the darkened mind! So shall the ancient Earth have not A nobler name than thine shall be :The deerls by martial manhood wroughtThe lofty energies of thought- The spell of poesy- These nre hut frail and fading honors-thine Shall Time unto Eternity consign! Yea, and when throues shall c rumble down, Aud human pride and ;;randenr fall, |