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On The Bill Which Was Passed In England For Regulating The Slave-trade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The hollow winds of night no more	A
In wild unequal cadence pour	A
On musing fancy's wakeful ear	B
The groan of agony severe	C
From yon dark vessel which contains	D
The wretch new bound in hopeless chains	D
Whose soul with keener anguish bleeds	E
As AFRIC'S less'ning shore recedes	E
	-
No more where Ocean's unseen bound	F
Leaves a drear world of waters round	F
Between the howling gust shall rise	G
The stifled captive's latest sighs	G
No more shall suffocating death	H
Seize the pent victim's sinking breath	H
The pang of that convulsive hour	I
Reproaching man's insatiate power	I
Man who to AFRIC'S shore has past	J
Relentless as the annual blast	J
That sweeps the Western Isles and flings	K
Destruction from its furious wings	K
And woman she too weak to bear	L
The galling chain the tainted air	L
Of mind too feeble to sustain	M
The vast accumulated pain	M
No more in desperation wild	N
Shall madly strain her gasping child	N
With all the mother at her soul	O
With eyes where tears have ceas'd to roll	O
Shall catch the livid infant's breath	H
Then sink in agonizing death	H
BRITAIN the noble blest decree	P
That soothes despair is fram'd by thee	P
Thy powerful arm has interpos'd	N
And one dire scene for ever clos'd	N
Its horror shall no more belong	Q
To that foul drama deep with wrong	Q
O first of EUROPE'S polish'd lands	R
To ease the captive's iron bands	R
Long as thy glorious annals shine	S
This proud distinction shall be thine	S
Not first alone when valour leads	E
To rush on danger's noblest deeds	E
When mercy calls thee to explore	A
A gloomy path untrod before	A
Thy ardent spirit springs to heal	T
And greatly gen'rous dares to feel	T
Valour is like the meteor's light	N
Whose partial flash leaves deeper night	N
While Mercy like the lunar ray	U
Gilds the thick shade with softer day	U
Blest deed that met consenting minds	V
In all but those whom av'rice binds	V
Who creep in interest's crooked ways	W
Nor ever pass her narrow maze	W
Or those whom hard indiff'rence steels	X
To every pang another feels	X
For them has fortune round their bowers	Y
Twin'd partial nymph her lavish flowers	Y
For them from unsunn'd caves she brings	K
Her summer ice for them she springs	K
To climes where hotter suns produce	Z
The richer fruit's delicious juice	Z
While they whom wasted blessings tire	I
Nor leave one want to feed desire	I
With cool insulting ease demand	N
Why for yon hopeless captive band	N
Is ask'd to mitigate despair	L
The mercy of the common air	L
	-
The boon of larger space to breathe	A2
While coop'd that hollow deck beneath	B2
A lengthen'd plank on which to throw	C2
Their shackled limbs while fiercely glow	C2
The beams direct that on each head	N
The fury of contagion shed	N
And dare presumptuous guilty man	D2
Load with offence his fleeting span	D2
Deform creation with the gloom	E2
Of crimes that blot its cheerful bloom	E2
Darken a work so perfect made	N
And cast the universe in shade	N
Alas to AFRIC'S fetter'd race	F2
Creation wears no form of grace	F2
To them earth's pleasant vales are found	N
A blasted waste a sterile bound	N
Where the poor wand'rer must sustain	M
The load of unremitted pain	M
A region in whose ample scope	G2
His eye discerns no gleam of hope	G2
Where thought no kind asylum knows	H2
On which its anguish may repose	H2
But death that to the ravag'd breast	N
Comes not in shapes of terror drest	N
Points to green hills where freedom roves	H2
And minds renew their former loves	H2
Or hov'ring in the troubled air	L
Hangs the fierce spectre of Despair	L
Whose soul abhors the gift of life	I2
Who stedfast grasps the reeking knife	I2
Bids the charg'd heart in torrents bleed	N
And smiles in frenzy at the deed	N
Ye noble minds who o'er a sky	J2
Where clouds are roll'd and tempests fly	J2
Have bid the lambent lustre play	U
Of one pure lovely azure ray	U
O far diffuse its op'ning bloom	E2
And the wide Hemisphere illume	E2
Ye who one bitter drop have drain'd	N
From slav'ry's cup with horror stain'd	N
O let no fatal dregs be found	N
But dash her chalice on the ground	N
While still she links her impious chain	M
And calculates the price of pain	M
Weighs agony in sordid scales	H2
And marks if death or life prevails	H2
Decides how near the mangling scourge	K2
May to the grave its victim urge	K2
Yet for awhile with prudent care	L
The half worn wretch if useful spare	L
And speculates with skill refin'd	N
How deep a wound will stab the mind	N
How far the spirit can endure	L2
Calamity that hopes no cure	L2
Ye who can selfish cares forego	C2
To pity those which others know	C2
As light that from its centre strays	H2
To glad all nature with its rays	H2
O ease the pangs ye stoop to share	L
And rescue millions from despair	L
For you while morn in graces gay	U
Wakes the fresh bloom of op'ning day	U
Gilds with her purple light your dome	E2
Renewing all the joys of home	E2
Of that dear shed which first ye knew	M2
Where first the sweet affections grew	M2
Whose charm alike the heart can draw	N2
If form'd of marble or of straw	N2
Whether the voice of pleasure calls	H2
And gladness echoes through its walls	H2
Or to its hallow'd roof we fly	J2
With those we love to pour the sigh	J2
The load of mingled pain to bear	L
And soften every pang we share	L
Ah think how desolate his state	N
How he the cheerful light must hate	N
Whom sever'd from his native soil	O2
The morning wakes to fruitless toil	O2
To labours hope shall never cheer	C
Or fond domestic joy endear	B
	-
Poor wretch on whose despairing eyes	H2
His cherish'd home shall never rise	H2
Condemn'd severe extreme to live	P2
When all is fled that life can give	Q2
And ah the blessings valued most	N
By human minds are blessings lost	N
Unlike the objects of the eye	J2
Enlarging as we bring them nigh	J2
Our joys at distance strike the breast	N
And seem diminish'd when possest	N
Who from his far divided shore	A
The half expiring captive bore	A
Those whom the traffic of their race	H2
Has robb'd of every human grace	H2
Whose harden'd souls no more retain	M
Impressions nature stamp'd in vain	M
As streams that once the landscape gave	R2
Reflected on the trembling wave	R2
Their substance change when lock'd in frost	N
And rest in dead contraction lost	N
Who view unmoved the look that tells	H2
The pang that in the bosom dwells	H2
Heed not the nerves that terror shakes	H2
The heart convulsive anguish breaks	H2
The shriek that would their crimes upbraid	N
But deem despair a part of trade	N
Such only for detested gain	M
The barb'rous commerce would maintain	M
The gen'rous sailor he who dares	H2
All forms of danger while he bears	H2
The British flag o'er sultry seas	H2
And spreads it on the Polar breeze	H2
He to whose guardian arm we owe	C2
Each blessing that the happy know	C2
Whatever charms the soften'd heart	N
Each cultur'd grace each finer art	N
E'en thine most lovely of the train	M
Sweet Poetry thy heav'n taught strain	M
His breast where nobler passions burn	S2
In honest poverty would spurn	S2
The wealth oppression can bestow	C2
And scorn to wound a fetter'd foe	C2
True courage in the unconquered soul	O
Yields to Compassion's mild control	O
As the resisting frame of steel	T
The magnet's secret force can feel	T
When borne at length to Western lands	H2
Chain'd on the beach the captive stands	H2
Where Man dire merchandize is sold	N
And barter'd life is paid for gold	N
In mute affliction see him try	J2
To read his new possessor's eye	J2
If one blest glance of mercy there	L
One half form'd tear may check despair	L
Ah if that eye with sorrow sees	H2
His languid look his quiv'ring knees	H2
Those limbs which scarce their load sustain	M
That form consum'd in wasting pain	M
Such sorrow fills his ruthless eye	J2
Who sees the lamb he doom'd to die	J2
In pining sickness yield his life	I2
And thus elude the sharpen'd knife	I2
Or if where savage habit steels	H2
The vulgar mind one bosom feels	H2
The sacred claim of helpless woe	C2
If pity in that soil can grow	C2
Yet why on one poor chance must rest	N
The int'rest of a kindred breast	N
Why yield to passion's wayward laws	H2
Humanity's devoted caus	H2