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Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech
I would adorn the day and give it voice,That it should sing with praises meet for Thee;
For none but man can bid it so rejoice,
That it shall seem a joyful day to me;
Break forth ye hearts that frozen winters bind
In icy chains more strong than close the year!
Look up! the day, the day, ye suffering blind!
Ye deaf, its notes of welcome come and hear!
Bid it the joy your hearts have long supprest,
Give back to you in new awakening strains;
To rouse the sinful from their guilty rest,
And break the captive's more than iron chains;
It shall arise with healing in its beams,
And wake the nations from their lengthened dreams.
Poem No. 286; c. January 1839
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