Christian Love
Agnes (pseudonym)
The Unionist 1833-09-05
Unionist content
Transcription
CHRISTIAN LOVE.
Oh father, when the soften’d heart
Is lifted up in prayer to Thee,
When earthly thoughts while depart,
And leave the mounting spirit free—
Then teach us that our love, like Thine,
O’er all the realms of earth should flow,
A shoreless stream, a flood divine,
To bathe and heal the heart of we.
Then Afric’s son shall hear no more
The tyrant’s, in the christian name,
Nor tears of wasting anguish pour,
Unpitied o’er his life of shame.
But taught to love Thee, by the love
That bids his long-worn fetters break,
He too shall lift his soul above,
And serve Thee for thy mercy’s sake.
[Ibid.] AGNES.
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Important for being a woman author, and borrowed from The Genius of Universal Emancipation, whose poetry editor, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, was an important early Abolitionist.
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