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... laid, And the vengeance of ages has whetted its blade. Earth may hide-waves lngulf-fire consume us, But they shall not to slavery doomn us: If they rule, it shall be oer our ashes and graves; But we've smote them already with fire on the waves, And new ...

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... the Libyan shore, In bitter toil the galley slave Still labours at the oar. ?? every clime beneath the skies, Profan'd by slavery's chain, The prayers of captive millions rise, And shall they plead in vain? Shall man, of little power possess'd, His fellow ...

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... And pir exlaims to the world, as she seconds the blow, That the ile of Ocean is Tyranny's foe. toyleld'n.g to Faction and Slavery's yoke, 'the true Briton's heart's like the heart of his oak: I hough its leaves may be shiver'd, unshatter'd's the stem. ...

Poetry

... Lybian shore, ln bitter toil the galley slave Still labours at the oar. t yrorn every clime beneath the skies, a Profan'd by slavery's chain; The ?? of captive millions rise, And shall they plead in vain? Shall man, of little power possess'd. -His fellowworm ...

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... rfrTifnat. I LINZS ON SLAVERY. liritannia, renown'd on the waves, In the hitred she ever has shown To the labce-sceptred rulers of slaves, Resolves to have none of her own ' Coopper, Oh! give sob the groans of the slave, in Oh! give me the pains of the ...

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... bowl m Hlre closed the cursed days of a tyrant before: of Shall tell-there are heroes, whose hearts are yet free, Though Slavery dangle around themn her chain; E Whuse bosoms beat hlgb, thy destruction to see, of And the fever of liberty burns through ...

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... hall, With a cold damp door and a mouldering wall, Than to bend the neck, and to bow the knee, In the proudest palace of slavery,-Oaearius. TO A MISER. Thou addest daily to thy store thy gains, Will a gold fleece give to a sheep more brains?-Paullin. ...

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... poet's ikme, ua aor his, toog ist5h.l iTR hlowe4 gspĀ§. i Ihspisgigeat51, saove for itsvuse to ae The wretch4 4fut-lnfromm slavery the brave, Dl Itebeard th*s5 s ofI pI. c0, ?? I sIatgs: With rtthless foes, for, Ilberfty aldlid:fe *held her Vwcstle ed ...

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... '-burst your chains, ma And set your groaning country free; plei Or vilely crouch, and feel the pains, atte The direst pangs of slavery ! ers, RODERICK. the ?? de Cordova,' surnamed is El Gran Capitan. and of TO A RtASCALLY LAWYER. the (Fto'S Templeman's Poemns ...

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... yetbefelt-bis native land ared 'Must owe her freedom .to his hand; -fo That he alone her foes could tame, be I And end her slavery and her shame. imp The fqllowing English verses, written by Voltaire, are Mon a literary-,curiosity. pri To MARY LEPEL, LADY ...

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... While all your friends sincerely GRIEVE That you should misapply your time, In writing such infernal rhyme. SONNETS ON SLAVERY. By Robert Sosdtey, LL.D. Poet Laereat, dyc. -ihere are yet two methods remaining by which this traffic will probably be ...