Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly

[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.

[23] 'Jerusalem, my happy home,' anonymous hymn dating from the latter part of the sixteenth century, sung to the tune of 'St. Stephen.' Words derive from St. Augustine's Meditations.

[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.

[29] Hamlet, Act I, scene 1, lines 115-116