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The Indian's Petition
The Indian calls! Grant him a place of rest,From wrong, and violence forever free;
Grant him a portion of the boundless West,
Where he may dwell, and learn to live like thee.
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Subdue his passions fierce by reason's sway;
And find how vast the gains of patient toil,
And all his nobler energies display.
There let him learn it was not all a dream,
His fathers taught him of the Indian's heaven;
That there, beyond the mighty western stream,
That home of rest may yet to him be given;
Where he shall know His love, who died for all,
And on his Heavenly Father learn to call.
Poem No. 515; 23 March 1849
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