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Arouse for Freedom!

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 11, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 23.

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Arouse for Freedom!

By John Greenleaf Whittier

Up, then, in Freedom's manly part, From graybeard eld to fiery youth, And on the nation's naked heart Scatter the living coals of Truth! Up,—while ye slumber, deeper yet The shadow of our fame is growing! Up,—while ye pause, our sun may set In blood, around our altars flowing!
O, rouse ye, ere the storm comes forth,— The gathered wrath of God and man,— Like that which wasted Egypt's earth, When hail and fire above it ran. Hear ye no warnings in the air? Feel ye no earthquake underneath? Up,—up! why will ye slumber where The sleeper only wakes in death?
Up now for Freedom! — not in strife Like that your sterner fathers saw,— The awful waste of human life,— The glory and the guilt of war; But break the chain,—the yoke remove, And smite to earth Oppression's rod With those mild arms of Truth and Love, Made mighty through the living God! —J. G. Whittier.