2. Happy the man, whose hopes rely
On Israel's God: He made the sky,

And earth and seas, with all their train;
His truth forever stands secure;

He saves th' oppressed, He feeds the poor;
And none shall find His promise vain.
3. The Lord hath eyes to.give the blind;
The Lord supports the sinking mind;
He sends the laboring conscience peace;
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release.

4. He loves His saints; He knows them well; But turns the wicked down to hell;

Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns;

Let every tongue, let every age,
In this exalted work engage;
Praise Him in everlasting strains.

WATTS.

1. JUDGES, who rule the world by laws,
Will ye despise the righteous cause,
When the oppressed before you stands?
Dare ye condemn the righteous poor,
And let rich sinners go secure,

While gold and greatness bribe your hands?

2. Have ye forgot, or never knew,

That God will judge the judges, too?

High in the heavens His justice reigns;

Yet you invade the rights of God,
And send your bold decrees abroad,
To bind the conscience in your chains!

3. Th' Almighty thunders from the sky—
Their grandeur melts, their titles die-
They perish like dissolving frost;
As empty chaff, when whirlwinds rise,
Before the sweeping tempest flies,

So shall their hopes and names be lost.

4. Thus shall the vengeance of the Lord
Safety and joy to saints afford;

And all that hear shall join and say—
"Sure there's a God that rules on high,
A God that hears His children cry,
And will their sufferings well repay."

1. LORD, when Thine ancient people cried,
Oppressed and bound by Egypt's king,
Thou didst Arabia's sea divide,

And forth Thy fainting Israel bring.

2. Lo, in these latter days, our land

WATTS.

Groans with the anguish of the slave!
Lord God of hosts! stretch forth Thy hand,
Not shortened that it can not save.

3. Roll back the swelling tide of sin,
The lust of gain, the lust of power;
The day of freedom usher in;

How long delays th' appointed hour? 4. As Thou of old to Miriam's hand

The thrilling timbrel didst restore,
And to the joyful song her hand
Echoed from desert to the shore;—

5. O let Thy smitten ones again

Take up the chorus of the free-
"Praise ye the Lord! His power proclaim,
For He hath conquered gloriously!"

.1035.

L. M.

CAROLINE SEWARD.

1. O HOLY FATHER! just and true

Are all Thy works, and words, and ways,
And unto Thee alone are due.

Thanksgiving and eternal praise!

2. As children of Thy gracious care,
We vail the eye-we bend the knee-
With broken words of praise and prayer,
Father and God, we come to Thee.

3. For Thou hast heard, O God of right!
The sighing of the hapless slave;
And stretched for him the arm of might,

Not shortened that it could not save.

4. Speed on Thy work, Lord God of hosts!
And when the bondsman's chain is riven,
And swells from all our country's coasts
The anthem of the free to heaven,

5. O, not to those whom Thou hast led,
As with Thy cloud and fire before,
But unto Thee, in fear and dread,
Be praise and glory evermore.

1. O LORD! our eyes have waited long,
But now a little cloud appears,
Spreading and swelling as it glides
Onward into the coming years.

WHITTIER.

2. Bright cloud of Liberty! full soon,
Far stretching from the ocean strand,
Thy glorious folds shall spread abroad,
Encircling our beloved land.

3. Like that sweet rain on Judah's hills,
The glorious boon of love shall fall,
And our bound millions shall arise
As at an angel's trumpet call.

4. Then shall a shout of joy go up,

The wild, glad cry of freedom, come
From hearts long crushed by cruel hands,
And songs from lips long sealed and dumb.

5. And every bondsman's chain be broke,
And every soul that moves abroad
In this wide realm, shall know and feel
The blessed liberty of God.

J. H. BRYANT.

1. LORD! deliver; Thou canst save!
Save from evil, Mighty God!
Hear, O! hear the kneeling slave:
Break, O break th' oppressor's rod.
2. May the captive's pleading fill
All the earth, and all the sky;
Every other voice be still,

While he pleads with God on high.

3. He, whose ear is every where,
Who doth silent sorrow see,
Will regard the captive's prayer,
Will from bondage set him free.

4. From the tyranny within,

Save thy children, Lord! we pray;
Chains of iron, chains of sin,

Cast, forever cast away.

5. Love to man, and love to God,
Are the weapons of our war;
These can break th' oppressor's rod-
Burst the bonds that we abhor.

1038.

7s.

MRS. FOLLEN.

1. MEN! whose boast it is, that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave,
Are ye truly free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain
When it works a brother's pain,
Are ye not base slaves, indeed-
Slaves unworthy to be freed?
2. Is true freedom but to break

Fetters for our own dear sake,
And with leathern hearts forget
That we owe mankind a debt?

1039.

1040.

No! true freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear,
And with heart and hand to be
Earnest to make others free!

3. They are slaves, who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;

They are slaves, who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than, in silence, shrink

From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves, who dare not be

In the right with two or three.

7s.

JAMES R. LOWELL.

1. GOD made all His creatures free;
Life itself is liberty;

God ordained no other bands
Than united hearts and hands.

2. Sin the primal charter broke-
Sin, itself earth's heaviest yoke;
Tyranny with sin began,

Man o'er brute, and man o'er man.

3. But a better day shall be,

Life again be liberty,

And the wide world's only bands
Love-knit hearts and love-linked hands.

4. So shall every slavery cease,

All God's children dwell in peace,
And the new-born earth record
Love, and Love alone, is Lord.

S. M.

MONTGOMERY.

1. How beauteous are their feet
Who stand on Zion's hill!

Who bring salvation on their tongues,
And words of peace reveal.