A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin / Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

So, moved of old time for our sake,

The holy man of Kempen spake.

Thou brave and true one, upon whom

Was laid the Cross of Martyrdom,

How didst thou, in thy faithful youth,

Bear witness to this blessed truth!

Thy cross of suffering and of shame

A staff within thy hands became;—

In paths, where Faith alone could see

The Master’s steps, upholding thee.