And thus the influence of that hour
Of converse on Rhode Island's strand
Lives in the calm, resistless power
Which moves our fatherland.

God blesses still the generous thought,
And still the fitting word He speeds
And Truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds.

Where is the victory of the grave?
What dust upon the spirit lies?
God keeps the sacred life he gave,--
The prophet never dies!
1844.



TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER.

Sophia Sturge, sister of Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, the
President of the British Complete Suffrage Association, died in the
6th month, 1845. She was the colleague, counsellor, and ever-ready
helpmate of her brother in all his vast designs of beneficence. The
Birmingham Pilot says of her: "Never, perhaps, were the active and
passive virtues of the human character more harmoniously and
beautifully blended than in this excellent woman."

Thine is a grief, the depth of which another