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SONNET.
Slavery is wrong, most deeply, foully wrong:Yet shame to those who madly plead its cause,
Trampling on duties, charities and laws!
Do they not know that Truth alone is strong?
That temperance doth at her side belong,
And lofty Justice? that this world's applause,
And this world's blame, but mark, like idle straws,
Which way the popular current sets along?
Truth hath stepped down from off her lofty seat,
And her white robes of Justice are defiled,
When she in angry factions sets her feet,
And fires the pyre that Bigotry has piled.
Still let her words be calm, her action high;
Thus will she surely stab the heart of Slavery.
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