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Show [ 126 ] -With dauntlefs fl:ep £he feeks the winding fl1ore, Hears unappall' d the glim1nering torrents roar ; With Paper-Rags a floating cradle weaves, And hides the fmiling boy in Lotus-leaves; 430 Gives her white bofotn to his eager lips, The fait-tears mingling with the milk he fips; '\Vaits on the reed-crown' d brink with pious guile, And trufl:s the fcaly monfters of the Nile.----- Erewhile 1najefl:ic from his lone abode, Embaifador of Heaven, the Prophet trod; 435 Wrench' d the red fcourge from proud Oppreffion' s hands, And broke, curft Slavery! thy iron bands. Hark! heard ye not that piercing cry, Which £hook the waves and rent the fky ?--- 440 E'en now, e'en now, on yonder Weftern ihores Weeps pale Defpair, and writhing Anguiili roars: E'en now in Afric' s groves with hideous yell Fierce SLAVERY ftalks, and flips the dogs of hell ; [ 127 ] Fron1 vale to vale the gathering cries rebound, 445 And fable nations tremble at the found!--- -YE BANDS OF SEN A TORS! whofe fuffrage fways Britannia's realms, whom either Ind obeys ; Who right the in jured, and reward the brave~ Stretch your 1l:rong arm, for ye have power to fave! 450 Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread refort, Inexorable CoNsCIENCE holds his court ; With ftill fmall voice the plots of Guilt alarms, Bares his malk' d brow, his lifted hand difarms ; But, wrapp' d in night with terrors all his own, He fpeaks in thunder, when the deed is done. H ear him, ye Senates ! hear this truth fublime, 455 " HE, WHO ALLOWS OPPRESSION, SHARES THE CRIME. ,, No radiant pearl, which crefl:ed Fortune wears, No gem, that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, 460 Not the bright ftars, which ~ight's blue arch adorn, Nor rifing funs that gild the vernal morn, |