The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

On Reading President Lincoln’s Letter

To Horace Greeley, of date Aug. 22, 1862—“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it,” etc.

Perish the power that, bowed to dust,
  Still wields a tyrant’s rod—
That dares not even then be just,
  And leave the rest with God.