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Poetry: Stanzas

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Published as the second section of a poem titled "Admonition" in Poems by William H. Burleigh, with a Sketch of His Life, ed. Celia Burleigh, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871.

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I. Stofmv pnssions with a pen of steel, W-rite their record on the human honrt; Grows the traeen - fires of sin onnual - Deep and decpur as iheyears depart. II. Perish hopes that holy made tsyouth; Fades the proinisc of its golden prime; JMeek affections. Bympathiesand truth, Swc-epoih overall the tide of crime! III. Downward pres-s?th evermore the soul That ia wed9ed to its hideous sin - Downward madly to the dreadfu! goal, Spirits hating purity must win. IV. In ïhe path that leadeih from the light. Every foot-fnll soundeth like n knell! Darker o'er the spirit gathers night - BlucUest Iiorrors thick around it dweil. V. Lost the briglitncssof its earüerday, All its Ionging8 for the Holy lost, L.ke a wreek, whose helm is torn away, On the waves of Error eee it tost! VI. Hnpless spirit! heedless of its birth - Msd to drink the bitter cup of woes! D.iik hath been thy piigrimngc on eartli. Darker still that pilgriinage shall close! VH, Yc. who ünger on forbidderi ground, Dreadful is your recompese, aud sure! For the blcssedness of Peace is found Only l)y ihe holy and the p"are!