The Mission of Intellect : a Poem, Delivered At Metropolitan Hall, New-York, Dec. 20, 1852
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ORDINATION. " G-o forth, and find amid the world "thy field : And such as these shall teach thee how to live ! Go forth, and mark the sorrows of thy race, And soothe the madness of their ignorance ! Go forth, and preach that earth is cursed by toil, Because that toil is linked with want and wo ! Be this thy mission — to exalt the doom, By patient virtue and by watchful love ! Be thine to teach that man is kin to man ! — That stars may glimmer through the darkest night, And flowerets bloom amid ...the rankest weeds ; That in G-od's plan there is no evil thing Which may not yet take hold on purity !" Silent the Voice : but 1, with quivering lips, Implored the Angel's name. — Then answered mo ORDINATION. 21 Those flutelike tones, o'crswaying all my heart, And said, " Behold — I am thy Comforter ! By me the rocky fountains of hard hearts Are touched, as with the prophet's wand, and gush In holiest streams ; by me the stone of grief Is rolled from off the mourner's sepulchre, And Christ ariseth 'mid its gloom ; by me Are souls made free from error's leprosy, As Naaman in Jordan ; at my touch The bolts and shackles of misfortune's prison Fall, as fell Peter's, when the angel came !
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