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The future doth avenge the past—
Now, for thy future's sake,
Oh, England! for the guilty past
A deep atonement make.
The slave is given to thy charge,
He hopes from thee alone;
And thou, for every soul so given,
Must answer with thine own.
L. E. L.
Mr. Clarkson is now in his eightieth year; and so recently as the 15th of April, 1839, had the freedom of the City of London conferred upon him by an unanimous vote of the Corporation.
