[21] These lines have been thus rather inadequately translated:
'Think, O Jesus, for what reason
Thou endured'st earth's spite and treason,
Nor me lose, in that dread season;
Seeking me, thy worn feet hasted,
On the cross thy soul death tasted,
Let not all these toils be wasted.'
[Mrs. Stowe's note.]
[22] Ps. 74:20.
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[24] John Philpot Curran (1750- 1817), Irish orator and judge who worked for Catholic emancipation.
[25] I Cor. 15:57.
[26] 'On My Journey Home,' hymn by Isaac Watts, found in many of the southern country songbooks of the ante bellum period.
[27] Prov. 4:19.
[28] This poem does not appear in the collected works of William Cullen Bryant, nor in the collected poems of his brother, John Howard Bryant. It was probably copied from a newspaper or magazine.
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