Poetry: "All Men Are Created Equal"

+sm.uiTuiun oj tuuípc:ultnce. Eanobliiig truth! -All men created frec." The rich, the poor, the simple and the wiae, Hat al! alike a nglit tu Libeity, For 'ti i boon which heavea tü none aenics; But man, vain man, the living God defieu And liimis his fclluw u-itli a giiliiïig chiiln - And iif.olj" l.i.s hcnr'l agninst bis I)iuer cries, IV inch teil of woi', and ini?eiy nnd puin And all the wruchedm-ss (Lui sialks in slavery's train. liAll men crentcd free," our fathers snid; Wc lionor tlicni r'or innny a noble d-ed; Kew,whilc (liey (tinlicr wiih ih niighjy dead. íSIihII we at once rojeel their Itbentl creed, And ay ihnt man of fiiídni has nu necd Unlcá his skin is eolored iike ouruwn'l AU! uo, but let us with redoubled p.;ed The (triiiciple to all mankind niaku known, ïill the whule wo.ld iá free, und ïluvcry Aivertliroua. ■Ü! nity the spirit of our ancient sires JBe spreaJ abroad througliout our wide domuin; And tu_r it light nnew fair frecdom's fires Aud cali tD nnntj1' ihé'pa'.rïoi tneii ngaia: But not to strew with vvoundcd and wiih slain Or atúrate with lii.md our native land; To break the slavi-'a unholy bor.ds ia nvaiu - 23e tliis the object of the patriot baad, Be this our rally'ing cry,iinl by i: let us stand.