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603 Famine in a Slave Ship .
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( Cor \ tinu $ d from page 575 . ) In a preceding number we threw together a few historical notices on the origin and influence of Gnosticism during the first ages of our era . Without pretending to antiquarian fulness and
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ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE SPIRIT OF GNOSTICISM :, DURING THE FIRST CKNTURIE 8 OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA .
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By the Author of * Corn Law Rhymes . * 1 . They stood on the deck of the slave-freighted "bark , All hopeless , all dying , while waited the shark ; Sons , Fathers , —and Mothers , who shriek'd as they press'd The infants that pined till they died on the hreast;—A crowd of sad mourners , who sighed to the gale , While on all their dark faces the darkness grew pale . 2 . White demons heheld them , with curse and with frown , And curs'd them , from morn till the darkness came down ; And knew not compassion , hut laugh'd a . t their prayer , When they call'd on their God , or wept loud in despair ; Till again rose the morn , and all hush * d was the wail , And on cheeks stark and cold the grim darkness was pale .
3 , Then the white , heartless demons , with curse and with frown , Gave the dead to the deep , till the darkness came down : But the angel who "blasteth , unheard and unseen , Bade the tyrants lie low where their victims had been ; And down dropp'd the waves , and stone-still hung the sail , And black sank the dead , while more pale grew the pale .
4 . Stern angel , how calmly his chosen he slew ! And soon the survivors were fearful and few ; For wall'd o ' er their heads the red firmament stood , And the sun saw his face in a mirror of blood ; Till they fed on each other , and drank of the sea , And wildly curs'd God in their madness of glee . 5 . What hand sweeps the stars from the cheek of the night ? Who lifts up the sea , in the wrath of his might ? Why down , from his glance , shrinks in horror the shark ? Why stumbles o ' er mountains the blind , foodless bark ? Lo , his lightning speaks out , from the growl of the gale 1 And shrieking she sinks—while the darkness turns pale !
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FAMINE IN A SLAVE SHIP .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/18/
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