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Last, and what greater proofs can now remain,
Touch we the border of Surinam's plain,
Lo, there the purchas'd Negroes may'st thou see,
Bursting their bonds and daring to be free,
In daring bands from caves and rocks they come,
And wrought to blood like trooping Panthers roam;
The swart Mulattoes to the forests fly,
Resolv'd to live in freedom, or to die.