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TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING.

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The pages of thy book I read,
 And as I closed each one,
My heart, responding, ever said,
 "Servant of God! well done!"

Well done! Thy words are great and bold;
 At times they seem to me,
Like Luther's, in the days of old,
 Half-battles for the free.