His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven.
His father, by the cruelest way of pain,
Had bidden him to his bosom once again;
The awful sin remained still unforgiven.
All night a bright and solitary star
(Perchance the one that ever guided him,
The father in this poem is referring to God.  The first sentence is describing his spirit floating up to heaven like smoke.  His father has called him up to heaven to be by his side.  This however, was done in the cruel method of lynching.
The Lynching