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THE NEGRO BOY * .
The African Prince , Naimbanna , ( vidL M . Rep * V . n , 491 . ) when in England , and under the tuition of a gentleman of the University of Cambridge , being asked what he gave for his watch , answered ^ u What I will never give again- —I gave a fine boy for it /*
When Avarice enslaves the mind , And selfish views alone bear sway , Man turns a savage to his kind , And blood and rapine mark his way : Alas ! for this poor simple toy , I sold a blooming Negro Boy . His father ' hope , his mother ' s pride .
Tho * black , yet comely to their view , I tore him helpless from their side , * And gave him to a ruffian crew : To fiends that Afric ' s coast annoy , I sold the blooming Negro Boy Prom country , friends , and parents torn , His' tender limbs in chains confin'd ,
I saw him o ' er the billows borne , And marked his agony of mind : Yet still to gain this simple toy ^ I gave away the Negro Boy . In isles that deck the western wave , I doom'd the hapless youth Wb dwell , A poor , forlorn , insulted slave , A Beast that Cktistians buy and sellj
, And in their cruel tasks employ , The much-enduring Negro Boy * His wretched parents long shall mourn , Shall long explore the distant main , In hopes to see theyoutli return ,
But all their hopes and sighs are vain : They never shall the sight enjoy , Of their lamented Negro Boy . Beneath a tyrant ' s harsh Command , He wears away his youthful prime , Far distant from his native land , A stranger in a foreign clime : No pleasing thoughts his mind emplor
A poor dejected Negro Hoy . But He whowvalks upon the wind , Whose voice in thunder ' s heard on high Who doth the raging tempest bind , Or wing the lightning thro' the sky , In his own time will sure destroy ,
Th' oppressors of the Nrgro Boy . We arc obliged to two Correspondents for copies of the r oilowing poem * Ed ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/44/
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