Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-03-08
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G H ARITY

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To do the deeds that charity shall claim.
Will give title to the christian name.
Those deeds are many in the life ofman;
To do them ifhe has the will, he can.
IT'S bis plain duty, In this Geld to toll,
. Harvest the grain and fsrtilizs the soil.
To cheer the weak, responding, gloomy souls,
And help the needy poor within the poles.
To plead the cause Of all the suffering poor.
And help the truly INDECENT endure
Their many sorrows with lighter heart;
Ofhis OVID boarded wealth to give in part.
To aid The cause Of every good society,
Founded in virtue, love and 2iety.
Visit the wretched novels of distress,
And make their lowiy, lonely donates blest.
Contribute to their mean and scanty fare.
And in their various sufferines take share;
Bessech the rich, their surplus wealth to give,
And cause the humble starving poor to live.
To mitigate the keen Distressing pain,
The prisoners iron bands &c cut in twain;
Assist the humble weak against the strong,
And see hat more shall ever suffer wrong.
Break the strong fetters Of the injured slave;
Admit what God, and right, and nature gave,
Freedom and equal right to every man,
ofevery grade, and caste, and clan.
Relieve the wants Of every human kind,
Whether in body, fate, or troubled mind.
of all these various things to do his part;
( To initiate he sincere, pure in heart.
Bright charity broad veil extend Ger all
Oppressed with sin, or merged in bitter thrall.
IT'S not for him 10 give bis wealth alone, =
Or mere forgiveness grant, for injuries done;
But, universal love, to all extend;
To bond, to free, to enemy or friend.
Forgive all injuries of the vilest kind;
And root all evils from the abject mind.
IT'S thus that christian charity presents
The varied duties formed by Providence.
Dispense all good, while in the world are seen,
objects Of pity, wicked, good or mean.
Not ours TO ask the wretch, what made him so,
Il he in wants is all we ought to know.
To err, Is human nature-thus Inclined,
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The inebriate reeling through the streets,
Or convict toiling merged in iron CRATES,
Or shipwreck'd mariner. with waves entwined
All claim an equal sympathy Of mind.
To sarth's remotest corners should we 60,
We thers'behoId the sons Of grief and wo.
In our own native land, on southern plans,
Are things demand our charity, and cause VI
pain.
There stern oppression proudly stalks abroad.
And naughty tyrants WELD an iron rod.
At early morn the lash is heard to crack,
At mondays sun, thus bleeds the victims
-, back,
. And the deep midnight groan is heard afar,
And many paternaI ties are severed there.
There children from their parents torn asunder
And parents from their children doomed 10 wan
= der,
In distant clmes where despots rule with sway
And injured millions rue their natal day.
Where children of oppression plead in vain.
Are answered by the whip, the scourge and
chain.
There ihen's field where charity may roam,
And call the injured sons Of Afric home.
Or cross the broad Atantic's mighty deep,
And in the middle passage take peep,
And hear the crush'd and ruined negro tell
OF gIutted vengeance reek'd by sons of.hell.
OF bloody murders. cold, and cruel wrought,
And darker deeds. unreach'd by human tho't.
= Down to the confines Of eternal deep,
Where flaming hades. horrid vigils keep,
With blood stained spears eternal in thei
rounds,
And robbers Of the rights Of man are bound.
Vengeance Is mine, an angry Judge exclaims.
But smiling charity comes forth, and names,
IT'S human nature, frail and weak has wrought
Those deeds Of darkness, cruel beyond tho't,
Yet mercy's fountain, which in heaven dwells
Could shed one pearIy drop, and quench
thousand bells.
H. PoRTER.-
East Randolph, Feb. 18th, ls4s.