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Freedom's Offering,
A Collection of Poems.
Holly, Joseph C. (1825-1854)
[epigraph]
TO THE PUBLIC.
[dedication]
I.
[[PART I.]]
The Rose.
The Potomac,
To my School-boy Days.
To Miss Lydia A. Brown,
To the Northern Star.
An Epitaph.
On the Death of my brother Charles D. S.
To Miss M. S. I. S.
To Miss C. G.
Love.
The Contest of Elements.
To a Lady Slandered.
Our Family Tree.
The Storm.
Life's Voyage.
II.
PART II.
To Liberty.
The Patriot's Lament.
A Prayer for the Slave.
The Fugitive.
Progress
Worth—not Rank.
A Christian Prayer.
Freedom's Champions.
The Fugitive and the Christian.
Injustice—not Law.
This is A Fatherland to Me.
We have Parted.
A Wreath of Holly.
The Lower Law Triumph.
What we are, and what we might have Been.
Spring.
A Prayer.
The Noble Aim.
To Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe.
[subsection]
Temperance Songs.
[Hurrah for the temperance cause]
[Sots wha hae your glasses drank]
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Freedom's Offering,
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“Not that I feel that hunger after fame,
Which souls of half greatness are beset with;
But that the memory of noble deeds
Cries shame upon the idle and the vile,
And keeps the heart of man forever up
To the heroic level of old time.
—[Lowell.
Freedom's Offering,