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Page 6
... skies , • Where day - light sojourns till our morrow rise ! ' Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone ; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone , The eye of evening , brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut ...
... skies , • Where day - light sojourns till our morrow rise ! ' Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone ; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone , The eye of evening , brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut ...
Page 12
... skies ; Dead to the joys of light and life , the slave Clings to the clod ; his root is in the grave ; Bondage is winter , darkness , death , despair , Freedom the sun , the sea , the mountains , and the air ! In placid indolence ...
... skies ; Dead to the joys of light and life , the slave Clings to the clod ; his root is in the grave ; Bondage is winter , darkness , death , despair , Freedom the sun , the sea , the mountains , and the air ! In placid indolence ...
Page 28
... skies , Assail'd her traders ' grovelling hearts in vain , -Hearts dead to sympathy , alive to gain , Hard from impunity , with avarice cold , Sordid as earth , insensible as gold . Thus through a night of ages , in whose shade The sons ...
... skies , Assail'd her traders ' grovelling hearts in vain , -Hearts dead to sympathy , alive to gain , Hard from impunity , with avarice cold , Sordid as earth , insensible as gold . Thus through a night of ages , in whose shade The sons ...
Page 35
... beneath the beams of brighter skies , His home amidst his father's country lies ; There with the partner of his soul he shares Love - mingled pleasures , love - divided cares ; 8 There , as with nature's warmest filial fire , 1 35.
... beneath the beams of brighter skies , His home amidst his father's country lies ; There with the partner of his soul he shares Love - mingled pleasures , love - divided cares ; 8 There , as with nature's warmest filial fire , 1 35.
Page 42
... hurricanes the billows rise , To meet the lightning midway from the skies ; When from the unburthen'd hold his shrieking slaves Are cast , at midnight , to the hungry waves ; Not for his victims strangled in the deeps , Not 42.
... hurricanes the billows rise , To meet the lightning midway from the skies ; When from the unburthen'd hold his shrieking slaves Are cast , at midnight , to the hungry waves ; Not for his victims strangled in the deeps , Not 42.
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Adorn'd Africa age to age Albion's amidst arms beams beauty behold beneath beneath the sky birth blest bloom brave breast breath Casas Charib clime Creole curse dark death deep despair dust earth eternal Euphrates fire flood flowers gloom glory GLOW-WORM gold grace grave Greenland gulph Harp heart heaven hope hyæna isles joys land light lyre Mammon morn mother mountains Muse mysterious Nature's Negro Niger night Note numbers o'er ocean Paradise peace plains Pleiades POEMS prey race rage reigns rest rise roll roll'd rose round Rush'd secret shade shadow shine shore Sire skies Slave Trade slumbers smiled song Sorrow soul Spain spectre spirit Spring spurn'd star storms sublime suffering sweet thee thine thou tide toil tomb tree trembles turn'd tyrant vale vengeance verdure voice WANDERER waves weeps WEST INDIES Where'er wild Willow wind woes Yellow Fever yoke youth