Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Vol. 4 of 4
One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken; One heart from among us no longer shall thrill With joy in our gladness, or grief in our ill.
Weep! Lonely and lowly are slumbering now The light of her glances, the pride' of her brow; Weep l sadly and long shall we listen in vain To hear the soft tones of her welcome again.
Give our tears to. The dead I For humanity's claim From its Silence and darkness is ever the same; The hope of that world Whose existence is bliss May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this.
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1807-1892
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father's six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.
Whittier produced two collections of antislavery poetry: Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between 1830 and 1838 and Voices of Freedom (1846). He was an elector in the presidential election of 1860 and of 1864, voting for Abraham Lincoln both times.
The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 ended both slavery and his public cause, so Whittier turned to other forms of poetry for the remainder of his life.
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