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Title: Arisen At Last Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] On the passage of the bill to protect the rights and liberties of the people of the State against the Fugitive Slave Act. I SAID I stood upon thy grave, And, scattering ashes on my head, Again that moon of blossoms shines Once more thy strong maternal arms No threat is on thy closed lips, Southward the baffled robber's track Henceforth, within thy sacred gates, Not mindless of thy trade and gain, So shalt thou clothe with life the hope, The vision of a Christian man, And thou, amidst thy sisterhood When North and South shall strive no more,
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