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And now let us pause to heave a sigh and let fall a tear over the 
fact that two nations, so much alike, speaking the same language, 
the same blood coursing their veins, parted by no natural barriers, 
having so much in common, and endowed with so many qualities 
capable of mutual advantage, should have for 1,000 years devoted 
their great energies and superb talents to the barbarous task of 
destroying and devouring each other! And yet, let us be thank- 
ful that for 300 years the hands that erewhile were imbrued in each 
other’s blood have been joined, not only on many a battle-field, 
but in mutual fellowship, to promote civilization and Christianity 
through all the earth. 
And I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. 
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and we linger on the shore, 
And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. 
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and man bears a laden breast, 
Full of sad experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. 
When the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, 
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. 
When the war-drum throbs no longer, and the battle-flags are furled, 
In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World ! 
