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Who can, with patience, for a moment see / The medley mass of pride and misery, / Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, / Of slaving blacks and democratic whites, / And all the piebald policy that reigns / In free confusion o'er Columbia's plains? / To think that man, thou just and gentle God! / Should stand before thee with a tyrant's rod, / O'er creatures like himself, with souls from thee, / Yet dare to boast of perfect liberty!
Thomas Moore