Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Newport, R. I. | | The Quaker Alumni | | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
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SO the man be a man, let him worship, at will, | |
| In Jerusalem’s courts, or on Gerizim’s hill. | |
| When she makes up her jewels, what cares yon good town | |
| For the Baptist of Wayland, the Quaker of Brown? | |
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| And this green, favored island, so fresh and sea-blown, | 5 |
| When she counts up the worthies her annals have known, | |
| Never waits for the pitiful gaugers of sect | |
| To measure her love and mete out her respect. | |
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| Three shades at this moment seem walking her strand, | |
| Each with head halo-crowned, and with palms in his hand,— | 10 |
| Wise Berkeley, grave Hopkins, and, smiling serene | |
| On prelate and puritan, Channing is seen. | | | | |
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