text:  Thou LUTHER of the darken'd Deep! Nor less intrepid too than He Whose courage broke EARTH'S bigot sleep Whilst thine unbarr'd the SEA-- Like his 'twas thy predestined fate Against your grin benighted age With all its fiends of Fear and Hate War single-handed war to wage And live a conqueror too like him Till Time's expiring lights grow dim! O Hero of my boyish heart! Ere from thy pictured looks I part My mind's maturer reverence now In thoughts of thankfulness would bow To the OMNISCIENT WILL that sent Thee forth its chosen instrument To teach us hope when sin and care And the vile soilings that degrade Our dust would bid us most despair-- Hope from each varied deed display'd Along thy bold and wondrous story That shows how far one steadfast mind Serene in suffering as in glory May go to deify our kind