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THE BLACK MAN'S LAMENT.
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TURN FROM HIS FRIENDS.



From parents, brethren's fond embrace;
⁠From tender wife, and child to tear;
Then in a darksome ship to place,
⁠Pack'd close, like bales of cotton there.


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