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Like wriggling maggots they have burst their bound.
Like ravening worms-have crawled o'er distant zones:
Now-gaudy flies, they sail in pride around,

Till they shall weave their cone, and future empires found!

LXX.

Yes; like the butterfly, before she died,

A spot Rome sought to weave her precious cones;
Your nook retired the cautious mother spied,
And left her eggs on Freedom's rugged stones,
And wove, unseen, the germ of future thrones.
Like wriggling maggots they have burst their bound,
Like ravening worms have crawled o'er distant zones;
Now gaudy flies, they sail in pride around,

Till they shall weave their cone, and future empires found!

THE END OF CANTO FIRST.

Now here abruptly I have closed this canto,
As Business presses on the heels of Rhyme,
And galls its kibes, like Turks at old Lepanto,
And warns my Pegasus to halt in time;
Το press her further, faith, would be a crime !
Unless too tired, when next we take the road,
She'll canter brisker to a cheerful chime,-
For cheerfulness makes light the heaviest load,
But Destiny, at best, requires a constant goad.

Since no device, nor work is found,
Nor wisdom underneath the ground."
"Time flies, it is his melancholy task
To bring, and bear away delusive hopes,
And reproduce the troubles he destroys;
But, while his blindness thus is occupied,
Discerning mortal! do thou serve the will
Of Time's eternal Master, and that peace

Which the world wants, shall be for thee confirmed."

As this Canto commenced with a quotation from Byron, it shall conclude with one very similar from Moore :

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'Who, that surveys this span of earth we press,
This speck of life on Time's great wilderness,
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,

The Past, the Future, two eternities!
Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare,
When he might build him a proud temple there?"

Longfellow also writes:

"Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."

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ACQUAINT now thyself with God, and be at peace."—Job.

"Know that the main foundation of piety is this: to have right opinions and apprehensions of God."-Epictetus.

For-" In God we live, and move, and have our being."-Paul.

"Beyond all creeds the believing soul will find a boundless region, where God is still the ruler, where His moral laws hold fast, and where holy influences refresh and cheer the soul with the sense of freedom."-Alexander Russel.

.. "Piety has found

Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer
Has flowed from lips wet with Castalian dews."--Cowper.

"Gracious God, the world pervading,

Blessing all, and none upbraiding,

We would worship Thee

Not in formal adorations,

Nor with servile deprecations,

But in spirit true and free."-Fox.

For-"God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."-John iv. 24.

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"Fair Truth!

Friend to the wise, supporter to the weak,

From thee we learn whate'er is right and just;

Creeds to reject, professions to distrust,

Forms to despise, pretentions to deride

And, following thee, to follow nought beside."-Crabbe.

"From Thee, Great God, we spring, to Thee we tend;
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.”—Boethius.

Father of All! in every age, in every clime adored."-Pope.

"Doubtless Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not. Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer; Thy Name is from everlasting."-ISAIAH.

Yes" I am the Lord, and there is none else. Thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”—Truth, attributed to God by ISAIAH.

CANTO THE SECOND.

There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding."

"The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me

life."

"They that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee, for Thou, Lord, hath not forsaken them that seek Thee."-Holy Writ,

I.

ET, oh, loved isle, thy Destiny may be,

YET

Like soul to dust, to poor, material Rome,
A mental saviour to set nations free;

Truth's sacred spring, and Freedom's hallowed home,
Where man's progressive, thirsty mind may come
With buoyant hope and prune its wings in peace,
Not creed-born fear as God were but a gnome,
A demon, gloating over Sacrifice,1

Who gave man's spirit only for a priest to fleece.

1 It is dreadful to reflect upon what has been done in the name of religion, by ignorant Idolatry and intolerant Bigotry. Ahaz, one of the kings of Israel (according to Scripture), "burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom," and also, actually "burnt his children in the fire," as a holy sacrifice to please the Deity! and the "Tophet" or hell of the Bible was so called from a place to the east of Jerusalem, where children were burned to Moloch, and where drums "were used to drown their cries," so says Truth and Webster's Dictionary. And what the intolerant, persecuting spirit of Christian, Papal Rome has done through her Holy Jesuitical Inquisition, massacres, and tortures, in the sacred name of God, requires no comment here, but, to warn us against all creeds that are at variance with the just, merciful, and enlightened faith in the Almighty, Good Ordainer, all else are dangerous both to individual and national freedom. True religion lies in repelling all such intolerant religionists. And it was with consummate pleasure I read yesterday that Bismarck had taken the Papal bull by the horns, previous to its destruction in the shambles of Truth, by declaring in the Prussian parliament, that "The question is not one of serving God more than men, but whether we should serve the Pope rather than the King. Each man thinks he knows God better than others. I for instance think I know Him better than the previous speaker. We are simply doing our duty in guarding the independence of the state and the nation against the oppression of Rome, and the universal supremacy of the order of Jesuits, and we are doing it with God, for King and Fatherland." Well done, Bismarck! as you inflicted on Austria its Sadowa, and on France its Sedan, so the Papacy is now suffering as heavy a blow at Berlin, by the disendowment of its Prussian bishops. The withdrawal of state pay from these dignitaries is chiefly significant as a note of warning, that ere long all state pay shall be withdrawn from the Roman Church in Prussia, and possibly throughout all the states of Germany in due time. It is stated by a German correspondent that since the introduction of the new ecclesiastical laws into that country, two archbishops and three bishops have been imprisoned, and that the number of Catholic priests either fined or imprisoned amounts to 1400.

No doubt the Church of Rome based her ritual and fearful iniquities on

II.

Already hast thou in thy destined hour,
Like Phoenix bursting from its priest-bound shell,
To atoms dashed the mind-enslaving power
Of Papal Rome, and rung its funeral knell,
And shown the world she kept the keys of hell;
Not thine! oh truth-lit vestibule of heaven;
Yes! Gideon-minded State, the grove is felled,
Her blood-dyed altar to the Past is given,
Her crimson stole and triple crown are riven.

III.

And broken too the clotted, festering chain,
Which bound the Slave to Mammon's gorgon head,
Which scowled defiance o'er the chainless main-
'Twas thy proud Destiny to strike down dead,
On its own pinion, gold,1 its spirit fled;

Scripture, considering them sanctioned by the Testaments, Old and New, even down to its priestly garments, for the unsearchable, Eternal God is represented as being particularly interested regarding the style of candlesticks and snuffers, even down to the very cutting of the coat and trousers of the priests-For these are the garments which they shall make, a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe and a broidered coat, a mitre and a girdle, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron, thy brother and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priests' office"-Exodus xxviii.,-which must be either figurative or false, for according to the same sacred volume, "No man hath either seen or heard God at any time." But thank the Almighty power of Truth the days of bloody, insatiate Priestcraft and priestly domination are numbered, on this globe at least. Notwithstanding Ezekiel's priest-born metaphor, which makes God say, The priests that kept the charge of my sanctuary shall come near to Me to minister unto Me, and shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and they shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads."-44th chapter.

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1 On the 26th of August 1833, the "Slave Emancipation Act" was passed, which gave freedom to every slave in the British Colonies,-Great Britain voting from the national exchequer no less a sum than £20,000,000 as an indemnification to the slave-owners. Since that truly great Act, slave emanci pation has become general throughout the world. In this instance at least, the enlightened progress of humanity, practically setting aside the dictum of Sacred Scripture which says, "If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve, if his master give him a wife, the wife and children shall be his master's; and if he plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, then his master shall bring him to the door-post and bore his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever." Again, "If a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod that he die under his hand he shall be punished, but if he continue a day or two he shall not be punished, for he is his money." As the commandments of Moses to this day are promulgated, no wonder the Southern States of America fought for slavery, and the Roman priesthood for supremacy.

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