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The Influence of Channing
Stern creeds and outward forms must pass away,Their purpose served to guard the Life within;
We hail the Advent of a milder Day,
Whose dawn on earth at length we see begin!
Channing, though thy frail form no more we see,
Nor hear, as once, thy calm persuasive voice,
Thou livest still! we hail thy Jubilee,
And in thy growing influence would rejoice.
The love of God and man thy simple creed;
The love of man as an immortal soul,
That has the slave from cruel bondage freed,
And shall War's desolating wrath controul.
Still may thy influence spread from clime to clime,
And win new victories with the years of time.
Poem No. 435; c. 8 April 1880
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