12. Call up at last the afflicted race,

Whom man, not God, abolished.—Sore,

For centuries, their strife: the place

That knew them once shall know no more!

LI.—WINTER.

1. Fall, snow, and cease not! Flake by flake

The decent winding-sheet compose.

Thy task is just and pious; make

An end of blasphemies and woes.

2. Fall flake by flake! by thee alone,