THE GOSPEL OF FREEDOM

THE
GOSPEL OF FREEDOM

BY
ROBERT HERRICK
AUTHOR OF “THE MAN WHO WINS,” “LITERARY
LOVE-LETTERS AND OTHER STORIES”

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1898

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1898
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

To
The Memory of
P. S. A.

Somewhere, surely, afar,

In the sounding labour-house vast

Of being, it practised that strength,

Zealous, beneficent, firm!

THE GOSPEL OF FREEDOM