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Show Some clouds which hat! over us lnmg, Ficll, chased by her mclo1ly clear; And methought, while she liberty sung, 'Twas liberty only to hear. Thus sw iftly didding the 11ood, To a sl ave·<:ulturcd is laud we came, Where a denwu, her enemy, stood, Oppression his terrible name. In his hand, as a sign of his ~;way, A scourge hung with b~hcs he bore, And stood looking om ];,r hi,; prey, From Africa's so rrow ltd :.horc. But soon as approachiug the l.u1CI, That ange l- ltl;:c 11'11111au he ' ' icw'd, The scou rge he let lid\ !rom llis ltand,:t\ Vith the Llood of his subjects imbru'd. I saw him both .,ickcn and die, And the momcut the ulonstcr cxpir('d, Ilca rJ t. houts that ascended the sk)'• From thou:>ands with rapture in;:pircd. Awa king, how could l but muse At what such a dreaut ;;:hould betide 1 But soon my car caught the glad news, \Vhich scn·cd my \\ eak thottght for a guiJe ; That Britannia, renown'd o'er the wa,·es, For the hatred she C\'Cl" has shown T o the black-sceptrcd rulers of slave!!, ResiJ ivcs to have none of her own. 1788. 4 See Frontispiece. |