1. O you who call though none gives ear,
Restrain your voice till listening they draw near.

2. They know the truth; make you straight the path for others;
If such advice some benefit will confer.

3. On you the land's affairs depend, on you
In grave events its issues will devolve.

4. With patience meet whate'er therein may chance,
With arguments that can be set aside by none.

5. Seek not their voices to restrain whose wont
Is enmity; by other means are voices quelled.

6. Better than friend is enemy in spirit high,
Nobler in soul, and loftier in renown.

7. They who rebelled know well that ne'er to them
Will freemen yield obedience, bow the neck.

8. No friends are they, nor seek we in their stead
Whom for our friends we chose ere bonds were loosed.

9. Our humble brethren draw us unto them,
One creed we share, one flag above us waves.

10. Time, who has wrought this trouble, will again
Unite us, and the pact for which we hope

11. Annul these transient days of bitter woe
And griefs encounterd in our mortal lot.

12. For knowing well man's soul craves after calm,
Events of high import stir it to its depths.

13. A people, howsoe'er in pain endured,
Must feel at length anguish they cannot bear.