Chapter 40 No.40

Amid the turmoil and disgrace,

The voice was clear from first to last,

Of one who, in the desert place

Of barren counsels, held him fast

His shepherd's crook, and made it mace

To bear before the Great Event

Whose harbinger he chose to be,

And called on all men to repent,

And build a way from sea to sea,

For Freedom's full