id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9577 Whittier, John Greenleaf Anti-Slavery Poems 3. Part 3 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier .txt text/plain 12369 1101 92 Thy tears upon the living dead Thank God above thy dear ones' graves, Speed up the heavens thy perfect day, remanded to slavery under the Fugitive Slave Act, and taken down State Fell sudden darkness like the fall people of the State against the Fugitive Slave Act. I SAID I stood upon thy grave, movement of Free State men to occupy the territory of Kansas, and by the Not in vain a heart shall break, Is in thy ears to-day! To-day, please God, we'll pass, Rise, from lake shore and ocean's, like waves in a storm, Freedom's vote in each hand, and her song on each tongue; Like leaves of November erelong shall they fall, Like the grave fathers of your Age of Gold; Her natural home-born right to Freedom give, With prayers of love like dreams on Virgil's elm. And, South or North, wherever hearts of prayer ./cache/9577.txt ./txt/9577.txt