TO GEORGE BANCROFT, ESQ.
AUTHOR OF THE WORCESTER DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.
Friend of the poor!—go on—
Speak for the Truth and Right!
Onward—though hate and scorn
Gloom round thee as the night.
Speak—at each word of thine,
Some ancient Fraud is riven—
And through its rents of ruin shine
The sunbeams and the heaven!
Speak—for thy voice will be
Welcome in each abode,
Where manhood's heart and knee
Are bended but to God—
Where honest bosoms hold
Their holy birthright well—
Where Freedom spurns at Mammon's gold—
Where Man is not to sell!
