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POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (1), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever be the meaning of that creed
Last Line: By the son's act, the father's late remorse?
Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers


IN THE MESSAGE OFALEXANDER II TO CONGRESS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

Whatever be the meaning of that creed
Of the poke-bonnet and the ample brim,
Still in the shoes of truth the Quakers tread,
When they denounce our wars: forget the prim
Staid aspect of these worthy gentlemen,
While purely, honestly, for peace they plead;
Nor think it shame to propagate the seed
Sown by the sober hands of William Penn;
Perchance - when to that Northern court they went,
They left some saddening thoughts of death and war;
And can we think their words were idly spent,
If that sweet message of the younger Czar
To deaf Americans, were meant to endorse,
By the son's act, the father's late remorse?





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