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EMANCIPATION.
Hark! through the North a Spirit waking slow,And rousing like a strong man after sleep:
Its murmurs come like whirlwinds speaking low,
Ere yet they lift the billows of the deep.
What though this power is long and slow to wake!
Oh! ye are mad, its strength to brave and dare;
For, if its thunders from their mountains wake,
They'll smite your fields, and clear the northern air.
Then from the North, along its whole frontier,
A light shall stream in columns to the skies,
And like a new Aurora shall appear
To the whole land that South in darkness lies;
And while its flames do shake their banners near,
Your slaves will hail them with rejoicing eyes.
1844.
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