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Robert Southey - Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet VIRobert Southey - Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet VI
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High in the air expos`d the Slave is hung  To all the birds of Heaven, their living food! He groans not, tho` awaked by that fierce Sun  New torturers live to drink their parent blood! He groans not, tho` the gorging Vulture tear  The quivering fibre! hither gaze O ye  Who tore this Man from Peace and Liberty! Gaze hither ye who weigh with scrupulous care The right and prudent; for beyond the grave  There is another world! and call to mind,  Ere your decrees proclaim to all mankind Murder is legalized, that there the Slave Before the Eternal, "thunder-tongued shall plead "Against the deep damnation of your deed."
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