Humanity, or the rights of nature, a poem in two books. By the author of sympathy [i.e. S. J. Pratt] |
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Yet should she steer again to Afric's sand
There too she sees Oppression lifts his hand,
Within the tropics fiercer than the blaze,
That fires the earth, with iron rod he sways,
Ev'n from the fertile Nile to Niger's waves,
'Tis but a change of tyrants and of slaves.
There too she sees Oppression lifts his hand,
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That fires the earth, with iron rod he sways,
Ev'n from the fertile Nile to Niger's waves,
'Tis but a change of tyrants and of slaves.
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