National LyricsFields, Osgood & Company, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... , with awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We ' heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come . In grief which they alone can feel Who from a mother's wrong appeal , With blended lines of fear and hope We cast ...
... , with awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We ' heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come . In grief which they alone can feel Who from a mother's wrong appeal , With blended lines of fear and hope We cast ...
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... - crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war ! A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood- A wail where Camden's. UR fellow - countrymen in chains ! OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO. NATIONAL LYRICS .
... - crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war ! A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood- A wail where Camden's. UR fellow - countrymen in chains ! OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO. NATIONAL LYRICS .
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... mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS to market driven , And bartered as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain ? To us whose ...
... mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS to market driven , And bartered as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain ? To us whose ...
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... swings , Where the noisome insect stings , Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews. OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE . VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND . 18 NATIONAL LYRICS THE FAREWELL.
... swings , Where the noisome insect stings , Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews. OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE . VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND . 18 NATIONAL LYRICS THE FAREWELL.
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... mother's eye is near them , There no mother's ear can hear them ; Never , when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash , Shall a mother's kindness bless them , Or a mother's arms caress them . Gone , gone sold and gone , To ...
... mother's eye is near them , There no mother's ear can hear them ; Never , when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash , Shall a mother's kindness bless them , Or a mother's arms caress them . Gone , gone sold and gone , To ...
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