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Humanity, or the rights of nature, a poem

in two books. By the author of sympathy [i.e. S. J. Pratt]
(1749-1814)

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HUMANITY.
 I. 
BOOK I.
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BOOK II.

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But ere she turn, to Afric, let her fly,
Where slav'ry blooms beneath the fairest sky;
To desolated Asia, once the blest
In every charm of lavish nature dress'd,
Where favor'd Paradise, heav'n-planted, stood
A scene of wonders rising from the flood,
The holy spot by all the prophets trod,
Seat of the saints, and sojourn of the God,
Where Faith her Christian temples rear'd around,
And blood of Martyrs sanctified the ground,
Where ev'n Redemption like a Cherub came,
And Revelation, spread th'enlight'ning flame.
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