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Unto a Yorkshire school was sent	A
A negro youth to learn to write	B
And the first day young Juba went	A
All gazed on him as a rare sight	B
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But soon with altered looks askance	C
They view his sable face and form	D
When they perceive the scornful glance	C
Of the head boy young Henry Orme	D
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He in the school was first in fame	E
Said he 'It does to me appear	F
To be a great disgrace and shame	E
A black should be admitted here '	-
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His words were quickly whispered round	G
And every boy now looks offended	H
The master saw the change and found	G
That Orme a mutiny intended	H
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Said he to Orme 'This African	I
It seems is not by you approved	J
I'll find a way young Englishman	I
To have this prejudice removed	J
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'Nearer acquaintance possibly	K
May make you tolerate his hue	L
At least 'tis my intent to try	M
What a short month may chance to do '	-
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Young Orme and Juba then he led	N
Into a room in which there were	O
For each of the two boys a bed	N
A table and a wicker chair	P
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He locked them in secured the key	K
That all access to them was stopt	N
They from without can nothing see	K
Their food is through a skylight dropt	N
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A month in this lone chamber Orme	D
Is sentenced during all that time	Q
To view no other face or form	D
Than Juba's parched by Afric clime	D
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One word they neither of them spoke	R
The first three days of the first week	S
On the fourth day the ice was broke	R
Orme was the first that deigned to speak	S
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The dreary silence o'er both glad	N
To hear of human voice the sound	N
The negro and the English lad	N
Comfort in mutual converse found	N
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Of ships and seas and foreign coast	N
Juba can speak for he has been	T
A voyager and Orme can boast	N
He London's famous town has seen	U
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In eager talk they pass the day	N
And borrow hours even from the night	N
So pleasantly time passed away	N
That they have lost their reckoning quite	N
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And when their master set them free	K
They thought a week was sure remitted	N
And thanked him that their liberty	K
Had been before the time permitted	N
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Now Orme and Juba are good friends	V
The school by Orme's example won	I
Contend who most shall make amends	V
For former slights to Afric's son	I

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