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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And now they trace each scene of former love,
Explore each favour'd haunt, hill, vale, and grove,
And soon the well-remember'd huts they find,
Where faithful Friends and Loves were left behind,
Sudden before her sable lord appears,
Th'enfranchis'd wife adorn'd with faithful tears,
Mothers again their kidnapped babes behold,
Sons clasp their Sires in slavery grown old,
Here their own Niger rises to the sight,
And there their Nile's prolific banks invite;
Far as extend these parent floods they range,
Feel all at large and triumph in the change.
Explore each favour'd haunt, hill, vale, and grove,
And soon the well-remember'd huts they find,
Where faithful Friends and Loves were left behind,
Sudden before her sable lord appears,
Th'enfranchis'd wife adorn'd with faithful tears,
Mothers again their kidnapped babes behold,
Sons clasp their Sires in slavery grown old,
Here their own Niger rises to the sight,
And there their Nile's prolific banks invite;
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Feel all at large and triumph in the change.
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