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See There he stands not brave but with an air	A
Of sullen stupor Mark him well Is he	B
Not more like brute than man Look in his eye	C
No light is there none save the glint that shines	D
In the now glaring and now shifting orbs	D
Of some wild animal caught in the hunter's trap	E
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How came this beast in human shape and form	F
Speak man We call you man because you wear	A
His shape How are you thus Are you not from	G
That docile child like tender hearted race	D
Which we have known three centuries Not from	G
That more than faithful race which through three wars	D
Fed our dear wives and nursed our helpless babes	D
Without a single breach of trust Speak out	H
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I am and am not	I
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Then who why are you	J
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I am a thing not new I am as old	K
As human nature I am that which lurks	D
Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed	L
The ancient trait which fights incessantly	B
Against restraint balks at the upward climb	M
The weight forever seeking to obey	N
The law of downward pull and I am more	O
The bitter fruit am I of planted seed	P
The resultant the inevitable end	Q
Of evil forces and the powers of wrong	R
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Lessons in degradation taught and learned	S
The memories of cruel sights and deeds	D
The pent up bitterness the unspent hate	T
Filtered through fifteen generations have	U
Sprung up and found in me sporadic life	V
In me the muttered curse of dying men	W
On me the stain of conquered women and	X
Consuming me the fearful fires of lust	Y
Lit long ago by other hands than mine	Z
In me the down crushed spirit the hurled back prayers	D
Of wretches now long dead their dire bequests	D
In me the echo of the stifled cry	C
Of children for their bartered mothers' breasts	D
I claim no race no race claims me I am	A2
No more than human dregs degenerate	B2
The monstrous offspring of the monster Sin	C2
I am just what I am The race that fed	D2
Your wives and nursed your babes would do the same	E2
To day but I	C
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Enough the brute must die	C
Quick Chain him to that oak It will resist	F2
The fire much longer than this slender pine	Z
Now bring the fuel Pile it 'round him Wait	T
Pile not so fast or high or we shall lose	D
The agony and terror in his face	D
And now the torch Good fuel that the flames	D
Already leap head high Ha hear that shriek	G2
And there's another wilder than the first	H2
Fetch water Water Pour a little on	I2
The fire lest it should burn too fast Hold so	D
Now let it slowly blaze again See there	A
He squirms He groans His eyes bulge wildly out	H
Searching around in vain appeal for help	J2
Another shriek the last Watch how the flesh	K2
Grows crisp and hangs till turned to ash it sifts	D
Down through the coils of chain that hold erect	L2
The ghastly frame against the bark scorched tree	B
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Stop to each man no more than one man's share	A
You take that bone and you this tooth the chain	M2
Let us divide its links this skull of course	D
In fair division to the leader comes	D
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And now his fiendish crime has been avenged	N2
Let us back to our wives and children Say	N
What did he mean by those last muttered words	D
Brothers in spirit brothers in deed are we	B

James Weldon Johnson

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