The Freedmen's Book :: DAY OF JUBILEE.

DAY OF JUBILEE.

BY A. G. DUNCAN.

Roll on, thou joyful day,
When tyranny's proud sway,
Stern as the grave,
Shall to the ground be hurled,
And Freedom's flag unfurled
Shall wave throughout the world,
O'er every slave!

Trump of glad jubilee,
Echo o'er land and sea,
Freedom for all!
Let the glad tidings fly,
And every tribe reply,
Glory to God on high,
At Slavery's fall!

THE END.

Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Epicureans were the followers of a philosopher in ancient Greece who taught that pleasure was the great object in life,—an excellent doctrine, if confined to the highest kind of pleasure, which consists in doing good.

[2] A daily journal of the state of the planets.

[3] Written in 1832.

[4] The ancient Greeks supposed that nine goddesses, whom they named Muses, inspired people to write various kinds of poetry.

[5] Sol is the word for sun in Latin, the language spoken by the ancient Romans.

[6] Phoebus was the name for the sun, in the language of the ancient Greeks.

[7] The northern part of Great Britain is called Scotland, the southern part England. The entire people are called British.

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been repaired. Spelling and accented letters, as well as inconsistent chapter headings in the Contents and the body of the text, have otherwise been retained as they appear in the original publication.

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