Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary. - James Russell Lowell

Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? <p> No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!<p>

In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge,
And stealing will continue stealing.

The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow
Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.