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King Cotton looks from his window	A
Towards the westering sun	B
And he marks with an anguished horror	C
That his race is almost run	B
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His form is thin and shrunken	B
His cheek is pale and wan	D
And the lines of care on his furrowed brow	E
Are dread to look upon	D
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But yesterday a monarch	F
In the flush of his pomp and pride	G
And not content with his own broad lands	H
He would rule the world beside	G
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He built him a stately palace	I
With gold from beyond the sea	J
And he laid with care the corner stone	K
And he called it Slavery	J
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He summoned an army with banners	L
To keep his foes at bay	M
And gazing with pride on his palace walls	N
He said They will stand for aye	O
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But the palace walls are shrunken	B
And partly overthrown	K
And the storms of war in their violence	P
Have loosened the corner stone	K
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Now Famine stalks through the palace halls	N
With her gaunt and pallid train	Q
You can hear the cries of famished men	R
As they cry for bread in vain	Q
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The king can see from his palace walls	N
A land by his pride betrayed	S
Thousands of mothers and wives bereft	T
Thousands of graves new made	S
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And he seems to see in the lowering sky	O
The shape of a flaming sword	U
Whereon he reads with a sinking heart	V
The anger of the Lord	U
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God speed the time when the guilty king	W
Shall be hurled from his blood stained throne	K
And the palace of Wrong shall crumble to dust	X
With its boasted corner stone	K
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A temple of Freedom shall rise instead	Y
On the desecrated site	Z
And within its shelter alike shall stand	A2
The black man and the white	Z

Horatio Alger, Jr.

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