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I	A
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Another day Ah me a day	B
Of dreary Sorrow is begun	C
And still I loath the temper'd ray	B
And still I hate the sickly Sun	C
Far from my Native Indian shore	D
I hear our wretched race deplore	D
I mark the smile of taunting Scorn	E
And curse the hour when I was born	E
I weep but no one gently tries	F
To stop my tear or check my sighs	F
For while my heart beats mournfully	G
Dear Indian home I sigh for Thee	H
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Since gaudy Sun I see no more	D
Thy hottest glory gild the day	B
Since sever'd from my burning shore	D
I waste the vapid hours away	B
O darkness come come deepest gloom	I
Shroud the young Summer's op'ning bloom	I
Burn temper'd Orb with fiercer beams	J
This northern world and drink the streams	J
That thro' the fertile vallies glide	K
To bathe the feasted Fiends of Pride	K
Or hence broad Sun extinguish'd be	H
For endless night encircles Me	H
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What is to me the City gay	B
And what the board profusely spread	L
I have no home no rich array	B
No spicy feast no downy bed	L
I with the dogs am doom'd to eat	M
To perish in the peopled street	M
To drink the tear of deep despair	N
The scoff and scorn of fools to bear	N
I sleep upon a bed of stone	O
I pace the meadows wild alone	O
And if I curse my fate severe	P
Some Christian Savage mocks my tear	N
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Shut out the Sun O pitying Night	Q
Make the wide world my silent tomb	I
O'ershade this northern sickly light	Q
And shroud me in eternal gloom	I
My Indian plains now smiling glow	G
There stands my Parent's hovel low	G
And there the tow'ring aloes rise	F
And fling their perfumes to the skies	F
There the broad palm Trees covert lend	R
There Sun and Shade delicious blend	R
But here amid the blunted ray	B
Cold shadows hourly cross my way	B
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Was it for this that on the main	S
I met the tempest fierce and strong	T
And steering o'er the liquid plain	S
Still onward press'd the waves among	U
Was it for this the LASCAR brave	V
Toil'd like a wretched Indian Slave	V
Preserv'd your treasures by his toil	G
And sigh'd to greet this fertile soil	G
Was it for this to beg to die	A
Where plenty smiles and where the Sky	A
Sheds cooling airs while fev'rish pain	S
Maddens the famish'd LASCAR'S brain	S
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Oft I the stately Camel led	L
And sung the short hour'd night away	B
And oft upon the top mast's head	L
Hail'd the red Eye of coming day	B
The Tanyan's back my mother bore	D
And oft the wavy Ganges' roar	D
Lull'd her to rest as on she past	W
'Mid the hot sands and burning blast	W
And oft beneath the Banyan tree	H
She sate and fondly nourish'd me	H
And while the noontide hour past slow	G
I felt her breast with kindness glow	G
	-
Where'er I turn my sleepless eyes	F
No cheek so dark as mine I see	H
For Europe's Suns with softer dyes	F
Mark Europe's favour'd progeny	H
Low is my stature black my hair	N
The emblem of my Soul's despair	N
My voice no dulcet cadence flings	X
To touch soft pity's throbbing strings	X
Then wherefore cruel Briton say	B
Compel my aching heart to stay	B
To morrow's Sun may rise to see	H
The famish'd LASCAR blest as thee	H
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The morn had scarcely shed its rays	Y
When from the City's din he ran	Z
For he had fasted four long days	Y
And faint his Pilgrimage began	Z
The LASCAR now without a friend	R
Up the steep hill did slow ascend	R
Now o'er the flow'ry meadows stole	G
While pain and hunger pinch'd his Soul	G
And now his fev'rish lip was dried	K
And burning tears his thirst supply'd	K
And ere he saw the Ev'ning close	A2
Far off the City dimly rose	B2
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Again the Summer Sun flam'd high	A
The plains were golden far and wide	K
And fervid was the cloudless sky	A
And slow the breezes seem'd to glide	K
The gossamer on briar and spray	B
Shone silv'ry in the solar ray	B
And sparkling dew drops falling round	K
Spangled the hot and thirsty ground	K
The insect myriads humm'd their tune	C2
To greet the coming hour of noon	C2
While the poor LASCAR Boy in haste	K
Flew frantic o'er the sultry waste	K
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And whither could the wand'rer go	G
Who would receive a stranger poor	D2
Who when the blasts of night should blow	G
Would ope to him the friendly door	D
Alone amid the race of man	Z
The sad the fearful alien ran	Z
None would an Indian wand'rer bless	E2
None greet him with the fond caress	E2
None feed him though with hunger keen	F2
He at the Lordly gate were seen	F2
Prostrate and humbly forc'd to crave	V
A shelter for an Indian Slave	V
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The noon tide Sun now flaming wide	K
No cloud its fierce beam shadow'd o'er	G2
But what could worse to him betide	K
Than begging at the proud man's door	D
For clos'd and lofty was the gate	K
And there in all the pride of State	K
A surly Porter turn'd the key	H
A man of sullen soul was he	H
His brow was fair but in his eye	A
Sat pamper'd scorn and tyranny	H
And near him a fierce mastiff stood	K
Eager to bathe his fangs in blood	K
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The weary LASCAR turn'd away	B
For trembling fear his heart subdued	K
And down his cheek the tear would stray	B
Though burning anguish drank his blood	K
The angry Mastiff snarl'd as he	H
Turn'd from the house of luxury	H
The sultry hour was long and high	A
The broad sun flamed athwart the sky	A
But still a throbbing hope possess'd	K
The Indian wand'rer's fev'rish breast	K
When from the distant dell a sound	K
Of swelling music echo'd round	K
	-
It was the church bell's merry peal	G
And now a pleasant house he view'd	K
And now his heart began to feel	G
As though it were not quite subdu'd	K
No lofty dome shew'd loftier state	K
No pamper'd Porter watch'd the gate	K
No Mastiff like a tyrant stood	K
Eager to scatter human blood	K
Yet the poor Indian wand'rer found	K
E'en where Religion smil'd around	K
That tears had little pow'r to speak	H2
When trembling on a sable cheek	H2
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With keen reproach and menace rude	K
The LASCAR Boy away was sent	K
And now again he seem'd subdu'd	K
And his soul sicken'd as he went	K
Now on the river's bank he stood	K
Now drank the cool refreshing flood	K
Again his fainting heart beat high	A
Again he rais'd his languid eye	A
Then from the upland's sultry side	K
Look'd back forgave the wretch and sigh'd	K
While the proud PASTOR bent his way	B
To preach of CHARITY and PRAY	B
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II	A
	-
The LASCAR Boy still journey'd on	I2
For the hot Sun HE well could bear	N
And now the burning hour was gone	J2
And Evening came with softer air	N
The breezes kiss'd his sable breast	K
While his scorch'd feet the cold dew prest	K
The waving flow'rs soft tears display'd	K
And songs of rapture fill'd the glade	K
The South wind quiver'd o'er the stream	K2
Reflecting back the rosy beam	K2
While as the purpling twilight clos'd	K
On a turf bed the Boy repos'd	K
	-
And now in fancy's airy dream	K2
The LASCAR Boy his Mother spied	K
And from her breast a crimson stream	K2
Slow trickled down her beating side	K
And now he heard her wild complain	S
As loud she shriek'd but shriek'd in vain	S
And now she sunk upon the ground	K
The red stream trickling from her wound	K
And near her feet a murd'rer stood	K
His glitt'ring poniard tipp'd with blood	K
And now farewell my son she cried	K
Then clos'd her fainting eyes and died	K
	-
The Indian Wand'rer waking gaz'd	K
With grief and pain and horror wild	K
And tho' his fev'rish brain was craz'd	K
He rais'd his eyes to Heav'n and smil'd	K
And now the stars were twinkling clear	P
And the blind Bat was whirling near	P
And the lone Owlet shriek'd while He	H
Still sate beneath a shelt'ring tree	H
And now the fierce ton'd midnight blast	K
Across the wide heath howling past	K
When a long cavalcade he spied	K
By torch light near the river's side	K
	-
He rose and hast'ning swiftly on	I2
Call'd loudly to the Sumptuous train	S
But soon the cavalcade was gone	J2
And darkness wrapp'd the scene again	L2
He follow'd still the distant sound	K
He saw the lightning flashing round	K
He heard the crashing thunder roar	D
He felt the whelming torrents pour	D
And now beneath a shelt'ring wood	K
He listen'd to the tumbling flood	K
And now with falt'ring feeble breath	M2
The famish'd LASCAR pray'd for Death	M2
	-
And now the flood began to rise	F
And foaming rush'd along the vale	G
The LASCAR watch'd with stedfast eyes	F
The flash descending quick	N2