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      We want but the right , which the God of the night-Denies not to birds and to bees ; The Charter of Nature ! that bids the wing'd light Fly chainless as winds o ' er the seas .

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      No . XIX . With hair grown gray , we look behind On passions , whose wild reign is o ' er—Virtues , whose failure stings the mind , And troubles that molest no more : Slow pass'd the days of toil and care ; Yet , oh , how fast they seem to fly , When we look back on our despair , And call it hope , yet know we lie \ And still they pass , and shade on shade Deepens , their woe-mark'd path along : But thou , O God , art strong to aid ! Aye , and in thee the weak are strong .

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      No . XX . Free Trade , like religion , hath doctrines of love , And the promise of plenty and health ; It proclaims , while the angels look down from above , The marriage of labour and wealth .

      Free Trade , like religion , hath doctrines of peace , Universal as God ' s vital air ; And , thron'd o ' er doomed evil , He hails its increase , While his enemies only despair .

      By all who their blood on truth ' s altars resigt / d , To enfranchise a sin-fetter ' d race ! Our sons shall be free'd — from the curse of the blind ; And redeemed—from the bonds of the base .

      The ark of our trium , far far as seas roll , Shall ride o ' er the wealth-freighted waves ; The chain'd of the drones be the chainless in soul , And tyrants made men by their slaves .

      The Hall of our Fathers — with Heav ' n for its dome , And the steps of its portals the sea — Of labour and comfort will then be the home , And the temple where worship the free .

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      No . XXI . O ' er Polonia ' s plains of glory , Freedom towered—a stately tree ; From all storms , a sky of branches Sheltered mine , and sheltered me ;

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/23/