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To Charles W. Felt Esq. On His New Type-Setting Machine
While men, in War's dread service, tax their powersNew weapons to invent to harm and slay;
A new invention, Charles, thou hast made ours,
And one prophetic of a brighter day;
When man with man no longer shall contend,
Save with the nobler weapons of the mind;
When War on earth forevermore shall end,
And Peace all nations shall forever bind;
The Press with mightier power the truth diffuse,
And like the sun each darkened land illume;
And none the light of Knowledge shall refuse
To those who sit in ignorance and gloom;
But all shall Liberty & Knowledge share,
Who see the sun, or breathe the vital air!
Poem No. 810; 12 December 1864
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