Hiding | deep the | strengthening | purpose | of a | freeman | in his
| heart,
As the | Greegree | holds his | Fetish | from the | white man's
| gaze a | -part.
Ever | foremost | of the | toilers, | when the | driver's | morning
| horn
Calls a | -way to | stifling | millhouse, | or to | fields of
| cane and | corn;
Fall the | keen and | burning | lashes | never | on his | back or
| limb;
Scarce with | look or | word of | censure, | turns the | driver | unto
| him.
Yet his | brow is | always | thoughtful, | and his | eye is | hard and
| stern;
Slavery's | last and | humblest | lesson | he has | never
| deigned to | learn."
"And, at evening | when his | comrades | dance be | -fore their
| master's | door,
Folding arms and | knitting | forehead, | stands he | silent | ever
|-more.
God be | praised for | every instinct | which re | -bels a | -gainst a
| lot
Where the | brute sur |-vives the | human, | and man's | upright
| form is | not!"
—J. G. WHITTIER: National Era, and other Newspapers, Jan. 1848.
Example IV.—"The Present Crisis"—Two Stanzas out of sixteen.
"Once to | every | man and | nation | comes the | moment | to de
|-cide,
In the | strife of | Truth with | Falsehood, | for the | good or | evil
| side;
Some great | cause, God's | new Mes |-siah, | offering | each the
| bloom or | blight,
Parts the | goats up | -on the | left hand, | and the | sheep up
| -on the | right,
And the | choice goes | by for | -ever |'twixt that | darkness
| and that | light.
Have ye | chosen, | O my | people, | on whose | party | ye shall
| stand,
Ere the | Doom from | its worn | sandals | shakes the | dust a
| -gainst our | land?
Though the | cause of | evil | prosper, | yet the | Truth a | -lone is
| strong,
And, al | beit she | wander | outcast | now, I | see a | -round her
| throng
Troops of | beauti | -ful tall | angels | to en | -shield her
| from all | wrong."
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: Liberator, September 4th, 1846.
Example V.—The Season of Love.—A short Extract.