A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin / Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone.

From the tree whose shadow lay

On their childhood’s place of play;

From the cool spring where they drank;

Rock, and hill, and rivulet bank;

From the solemn house of prayer,

And the holy counsels there,—

Gone, gone, &c.

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,