362 NOTES AND TESTIMONIEI.

 In which the Holy Sufferer trod
 Meekly amidst the sons of crime,-
 That calm reliance upon God
 For justice, in his own good time,-
 That gentleness to which belongs
 Forgiveness bor its many wrongs,
 Even as the primal martyr, kneeling
 For mercy on the evil-dealing, -
 Let not the favored white man name
 Thy stern appeal with words o' blame.
 Has he not, with the light ofl heaven
 Broadly around him, made the same,
 Yea, on his thousand war-fields drivenn,
 And gloried in his ghastly shame?-
 Kneeling amidst his brother's blood,
 To offer mockery unto God,
 As it the High and Holy One
 Could smile on deeds of murder done I -
 As if a human sairilice
 Were purr in IL- holy eyes,
 Though cll'red up by Christian hands,
 Than the lone rites of' Pagan lands I


 Sternly, andidt his h)ousholul band.
 His carbine clnped within hi, hand,
 The white man -tood, prepared and still,
 Waiting the IhoLk of' maddelned men,
 Unchained and fie-re as tigers when
 The horn winds through their caverned hill;
 And] one was weeping in his eight,-
 The sweetest flower of all the iLle,-
 The bride who e:-emd but yesternight
 Lorv-'s Ihir embodied smile,
 And, liuiging to her trembling knee,
 Looked up the t1rm of infancy,


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