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i On building a chapel at Cape Town for the Negro slaves of the colony in i	A
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Afric from her remotest strand	B
Lifts to high heaven one fetter'd hand	B
And to the utmost of her chain	C
Stretches the other o'er the main	C
Then kneeling 'midst ten thousand slaves	D
Utters a cry across the waves	D
Of power to reach to either pole	E
And pierce like conscience through the soul	E
Though dreary faint and low the sound	F
Like life blood gurgling from a wound	F
As if her heart before it broke	G
Had found a human tongue and spoke	G
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Britain not now I ask of thee	H
Freedom the right of bond and free	H
Let Mammon hold while Mammon can	I
The bones and blood of living man	I
Let tyrants scorn while tyrants dare	J
The shrieks and writhings of despair	J
An end will come it will not wait	K
Bonds yokes and scourges have their date	K
Slavery itself must pass away	L
And be a tale of yesterday	L
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But now I urge a dearer claim	M
And urge it by a mightier name	M
Hope of the world on thee I call	N
By the great Father of us all	N
By the Redeemer of our race	O
And by the Spirit of all grace	O
Turn not Britannia from my plea	H
So help Thee GOD as Thou help'st me	H
Mine outcast children come to light	P
From darkness and go down in night	P
A night of more mysterious gloom	Q
Than that which wrapt them in the womb	Q
Oh that the womb had been the grave	R
Of every being born a slave	R
Oh that the grave itself might close	S
The slave's unutterable woes	T
But what beyond that gulf may be	H
What portion in eternity	H
For those who live to curse their breath	U
And die without a hope in death	U
I know not and I dare not think	V
Yet while I shudder o'er the brink	V
Of that unfathomable deep	W
Where wrath lies chain'd and judgments sleep	W
To thee thou paradise of isles	X
Where mercy in full glory smiles	X
Eden of lands o'er all the rest	Y
By blessing others doubly blest	Y
To thee I lift my weeping eye	A
Send me the Gospel or I die	A
The word of CHRIST's salvation give	Z
That I may hear his voice and live	A2

James Montgomery

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