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oes; He gazes on the marvels we have wrought, But knows the models from whence all was brought; In God's first temples he has stood so oft, And listened to the natural organ-loft, Has watched the eagle's flight, the muttering thunder heard. Art cannot move him to a wondering word. Perhaps he sees that all this luxury Brings less food to the mind than to the eye; Perhaps a simple sentiment has brought More to him than your arts had ever taught. What are the petty triumphs _Art_ has given, To eyes familiar with the naked heaven? All has been seen,--dock, railroad, and canal, Fort, market, bridge, college, and arsenal, Asylum, hospital, and cotton-mill, The theatre, the lighthouse, and the jail. The Braves each novelty, reflecting, saw, And now and then growled out the earnest "_Yaw_." And now the time is come, 'tis understood, When, having seen and thought so much, a _talk_ may do some good. A well-dressed mob have thronged the sight to greet, And motley figures throng the spacious street; Majestical and calm through all they stride, Wearing the blanket with a monarch's pride; The gazers stare and shrug, but can't deny Their noble forms and blameless symmetry. If the Great Spirit their _morale_ has slighted, And wigwam smoke their mental culture blighted, Yet the _physique_, at least, perfection reaches, In wilds where neither Combe nor Spurzheim teaches; Where whispering trees invite man to the chase, And bounding deer allure him to the race. Would thou hadst seen it! That dark, stately band, Whose ancestors enjoyed all this fair land, Whence they, by force or fraud, were made to flee, Are brought, the white man's victory to see. Can kind emotions in their proud hearts glow, As through these realms, now decked by Art, they go? The church, the school, the railroad, and the mart,-- Can these a pleasure to their minds impart? All once was theirs,--earth, ocean, forest, sky,-- How can they joy in what now meets the eye? Not yet Religion has unlocked the soul, Nor Each has learned to glory in the Whole! Must they not think, so strange and sad their lot, That they by the Great Spirit are forgot? From the far border to which they are driven, They might look up in trust to the clear heaven; But _here_,--what tales doth every object tell Where Massasoit sleeps, where Philip fell! We take our turn, and the
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