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POEMS
ON
SLAVERY.
BY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
SECOND EDITION.
CAMBRIDGE:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN.
M DCCC XLII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundredand forty-two, by H. W. Longfellow, in the Clerk's officeof the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
 CONTENTS.
 page
To William E. Channing9
The Slave's Dream11
The Good Part15
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp18
The Slave singing at Midnight21
The Witnesses23
The Quadroon Girl26
The Warning30
[The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, inthe latter part of October. I had not then heard of Dr. Channing'sdeath. Since that event, the poem addressed to him is no longerappropriate. I have decided, however, to let it remain as it waswritten, a feeble testimony of my admiration for a great and goodman.]
POEMS.
The noble horse,
That, in his fiery youth, from his wide nostrils
Neighed courage to his rider, and brake through
Groves of opposed pikes, bearing his lord
Safe to triumphant victory, old or wounded,
Was set at liberty and freed from service.
The Athenian mules, that from the quarry drew
Marble, hewed for the Temple of the Gods,
The great work ended, were dismissed and fed
At the public cost; nay, faithful dogs have found
Their sepulchres; but man, to man more cruel,
Appoints no end to the sufferings of his slave.
Massinger.
[Pg 9]
TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING.
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