At Home and Abroad; Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe

by Margaret Fuller

"O God, save me,

My wife, child, and hearth,

Then my harvest also;

Then will I bless thee,

Though thy lightning scorch to blackness

All the rest of human kind."

A sentiment which finds its paraphrase in the following vulgate of our land:—

"O Lord, save me,

My wife, child, and brother Sammy,

Us four, and no more."