Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife The holidays were fruitful, but must end; So in the gladness of the new event We struck our camp and left the happy hills. Almost a smile to steal to cheer her sons, BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; The strong gods pine for my abode, Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. FATE. DEEP in the man sits fast his fate If he than his groom be better or worse. The Genius from its cloudy throne. Unto the thing so signified; Is the same Genius that creates. FREEDOM. ONCE I wished I might rehearse That the slave who caught the strain Yet, - wouldst thou the mountain find Who gives to seas and sunset skies Or, if in thy heart he shine, Blends the starry fates with thine, Draws angels nigh to dwell with thee, Counsel not with flesh and blood; Right thou feelest, rush to do.' ODE. SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857. O TENDERLY the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, The cannon booms from town to town, Our pulses beat not less, The joy-bells chime their tidings down, Which children's voices bless. For He that flung the broad blue fold One third part of the sky unrolled The men are ripe of Saxon kind To take the statute from the mind Present and Past in under-song, Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. For sea and land don't understand, See rights for which the one hand fights Be just at home; then write your scroll Of honor o'er the sea, And bid the broad Atlantic roll, And henceforth there shall be no chain, Save underneath the sea The wires shall murmur through the main Sweet songs of liberty. The conscious stars accord above, The waters wild below, And under, through the cable wove, For He that worketh high and wise, Will take the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings |