Frederick Douglass

God sometimes stoops tj the lowliest men And lilts them up to subllmest lieiglits. And wbispers if they but listed then Of humun lovo and of human ríghts, And sends them l'orward ts bold and brave To do and to dare, to suffer :md save. God stooped to Douglass; black, low-born, A chattel to bniisc or buy or sell, The object of human wrai li or scorn, Unworthy of even :i white man's heil, For fair-play freedom and faii h to fl.ïbt With a darkened .skin but a soul made white. God bfted him up a pruide to be Of apeoplc a terrible ban, Then rang the bell of the Jubilee, Transformiug the chattel toGod's f ree man, And his the mission reccived froin heaven To malee men worthy the freedora given. God lifted him up. and he has aone To ioin the cboir of the saved above, And who can know but his work goes on, That he'8 sinini; the sougs he used to love, And color aad clime are all unknown In the shining light of the Glory-throne? Ann Arbor, May, 1S95.