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SONGS, LEGENDS, AND BALLADS.
They answer: "The blood and crime
Belong to a sect and place!"
What are these things to Heaven—
Races or places of men?
The world through one Chhrist was forgiven
Nor question of races then.
The wrong of to-day shall be rued
In a thousand coming years;
The debt must be paid in blood,
The interest, in tears.
Shall none stand up for right
Whom the evil passes by?
But God has the globe in sight,
And hearkens the weak ones' cry.
Wherever a principle dies—
Nay, principles never die!
But wherever a ruler lies.
And a people share the lie;
