| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 215. Astræa |
| | | By John Greenleaf Whittier |
| | | | | | “JOVE means to settle |
| Astræa in her seat again, |
| And let down from his golden chain |
| An age of better metal.”—BEN JONSON, 1615. |
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| O POET rare and old! | |
| Thy words are prophecies; | |
| Forward the age of gold, | |
| The new Saturnian lies. | |
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| The universal prayer | 5 |
| And hope are not in vain; | |
| Rise, brothers! and prepare | |
| The way for Saturn’s reign. | |
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| Perish shall all which takes | |
| From labor’s board and can; | 10 |
| Perish shall all which makes | |
| A spaniel of the man! | |
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| Free from its bonds the mind, | |
| The body from the rod; | |
| Broken all chains that bind | 15 |
| The image of our God. | |
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| Just men no longer pine | |
| Behind their prison-bars; | |
| Through the rent dungeon shine | |
| The free sun and the stars. | 20 |
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| Earth own, at last, untrod | |
| By sect, or caste, or clan, | |
| The fatherhood of God, | |
| The brotherhood of man! | |
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| Fraud fail, craft perish, forth | 25 |
| The money-changers driven, | |
| And God’s will done on earth, | |
| As now in heaven! | |
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