I call’d poor outcasts to the feast of grace;

Urg’d to pursue the work, by thee begun,

Through good and ill report, I still rush’d on,

Nor felt the fire of popular applause,

Nor fear’d the torturing flame in such a glorious cause.


“One in His hand, O may we still remain,

Fast bound with love’s indissoluble chain;

(That adamant which time and death defies,

That golden chain which draws us to the skies!)