They touch the shining hills of day;
The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait.
Give ermined knaves their hour of crime;
Ye have the future grand and great,
The safe appeal of Truth to Time!
[The End]
[FOOTNOTES:]
[A] The rule of the civil law partus sequitur ventrem, formerly prevailed in re domestic slavery.—1 Dall. 167.