Bondsmen and handmaids. Who shall blame.
When the slaves enslave, the oppressed ones o'er
The oppressor triumph forevermore?
"God spoke, and gave us the word to keep:
Bade never fold the hands nor sleep
'Mid a faithless world,—at watch and ward,
Till Christ at the end relieve our guard.
By his servant Moses the watch was set:
Though near upon cock-crow, we keep it yet.
"Thou! if thou wast he, who at mid-watch came,