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"Hate of oppression's arbitrary plan,

The love of freedom, and the rights of man;

A strong desire to save from slavery's chain

The future millions of the Western main."

The poet follows him in his career until he enters upon his perilous mission under instructions from Washington. Of the final scene he wrote:

"Not Socrates or noble Russell died.

Or gentle Sidney, Britain's boast and pride,

Or gen'rous Moore, approached life's final goal,

With more composed, more firm and stable soul."

J.S. Babcock, of Coventry, wrote in the metre of Wolfe's "Sir John Moore":

"He fell in the spring of his early prime,

With his fair hopes all around him;

He died for his birth-land—a 'glorious crime'—

Ere the palm of his fame had crowned him.

"He fell in her darkness—he lived not to see

The noon of her risen glory;

But the name of the brave, in the hearts of the free,

Shall be twined in her deathless glory."

In a poem delivered before the Linonian Society of Yale College, at its centennial anniversary in 1853, a society of which Hale was a member, Francis M. Finch said, in allusion to the martyr: