Page:The West Indies, and Other Poems.djvu/41

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Wild Africa beheld her tribes, at home,

In battle slain; abroad, condemn'd to roam

O'er the salt waves, in stranger-isles to bear,

(Forlorn of hope, and sold into despair,)

Through life's slow journey, to its dolorous close,

Unseen, unwept, unutterable woes.

end of the second part.