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This sacred right none are denied, / Which makes the soul to Christ allied; / Man bends the heart and bows the knee, / And knows in prayer that he is free.
Yes, free to ask of Him, whate'er / The fainting heart alone can cheer; / To worship at that holy shrine, / Where beams thy Spirit, Lord, divine.
And Afric's children they are free, / To breathe their vows, their prayers to Thee; / With thought of future joy and gain, / The slave forgets his grief and pain; / Forgets awhile his slavish fear; / Forgets -- that fetters bind him here; / And in that sweet communion rest / His hopes, his fears -- for he is blest.