Freedom and Truth

by Margaret Fuller

To a friend.

The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend,

Freedom is but a means to gain an end.

Freedom should build a temple, but the shrine

Be consecrate to thought still more divine.

The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw

Is liberty to comprehend the law.

Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame,

Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.