LIFE AND WORn OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE















 ODE TO DUTY.
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!
0 Duty! if that name thou love,
Who are a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring and reprove;
Thou, who are victory and law
When empty terrors overawe;
From vain temptations doet set free;
And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!


There are who ask not if thine eye
Be on them; who, in love and truth,
Where no misgiving is, rely
Upon the genial sense of youth:
Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot,
Who do thy work, and know it not:
O, if through confidence misplaced
They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!


around them cast


-WILLIAM Wosworra.