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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk ; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame ; Buy cheap, sell dear ; eat, drink, and sleep Down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want ; Pay tithes for soul-insurance ; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant. In such a time, give thanks to God, That somewhat of the holy rage With which the prophets in their age On all its decent seemings trod, Has set your feet upon the lie. That man and ox and soul and clod Are market stock to sell and b...uy ! The hot words from your lips, my own. To caution trained, might not repeat ; But if some tares among the wheat Digitized by VjOOQ IC 176 ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS Of generous thought and deed were sown, No common wrong provoked your zeal ; The silken gauntlet that is thrown In such a quarrel rings like steel. The brave old strife the fathers saw For Freedom calls for men again Like those who battled not in vain For England's Charter, Alfred's law ; And right of speech and trial just Wage in your name their ancient war With venal courts and perjured trust.
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