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THE CONGRESS OE WOMEN.

By harmonies of wisdom, and the pow’r Of Justice—these two, flowing into Love,

Gives back our earth complete into His hands.

Long, long alone he wrestled, planned and dreamed, Of what this giant young world held for man;

Saw with prophetic, deeper sense, more plain Than he of Bethel fame, new angels come And go along the secret steeps of God,

With banner’d thoughts, and hymns, he only read And heard of his New World’s fair destiny.

By joy and thought oppress’d beyond all speech, Still from the eternal, hearing melodies Shipward, he grandly moved and faced the sea.