Safe in their well-known haunts, they all prepared
To plan anew, and show how much they dared. 440
With joy the troubled heart of Robert beat,
For life was his, and liberty was sweet;
He look’d around in freedom——in delight?
O! no—his Rachel was another’s right!
“Right!—has he then preserved me in the day
Of my distress?—He has the lovely pay,
But I no freedom at the [slave’s] request!
The price I paid shall then be repossess’d!