JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

From purest wells of English undefiled

None deeper drank than he, the New World's child,

Who in the language of their farm-fields spoke

The wit and wisdom of New England folk,

Shaming a monstrous wrong. The world-wide laugh

Provoked thereby might well have shaken half

The walls of Slavery down, ere yet the ball

And mine of battle overthrew them all.