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

Thine was the seed-time: God alone

Beholds the end of what is sown;

Beyond our vision, weak and dim,

The harvest-time is hid with Him.

Yet, unforgotten where it lies,

That seed of generous sacrifice,

Though teeming on the desert cast,

Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last.

J. G. Whittier.

Amesbury, Second. mo. 18th, 1852.