The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Chapter 27 WENDELL PHILLIPS

He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide

The din of tattle and of slaughter rose;

He saw God stand upon the weaker side,

That sank in seeming loss before its foes:

Many there were who made great haste and sold

Unto the cunning enemy their swords,

He scorned their gifts of fame, and power, and gold,

And, underneath their

            
            

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