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DR. MORRISON AND HIS CHINESE ATTENDANTS.
They bend above the page with anxious eyes,
Devoutly listening to the sacred words
Which have awakened all the spirit-chords
Whose music dwells in the eternal skies.
And still their teacher hope and aid supplies.
For those dark priests are God’s own messengers,
To bring their land glad tidings from above,
And to the creed that in its darkness errs,
To teach the words of truth and Christian love.
Blessings be on their pathway, and increase!
These are the moral conquerors, and belong
To them the palm-branch and triumphal song—
Conquerors, and yet the harbingers of peace.
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