“To-day,” she added in a note to the editor of the Lynn Reporter accompanying her submission, “by order of Governor Andrew, the bells are ringing to celebrate the passing of a resolution in Congress prohibiting slavery in the United States. ” Her poem reads in part: Righteousness ne’er—awestruck or dumb— Feared for an hour the tyrant’s heel! Injustice to the combat sprang; God to the rescue—Liberty, peal! Joy is in every belfry bell— Joy for the captive! Sound it long! Ye who have wept fourscore can tell The holy meaning of their song.