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

To the rice-swamp dank and lone;

Toiling through the weary day,

And at night the spoiler’s prey.

O, that they had earlier died,

Sleeping calmly, side by side,

Where the tyrant’s power is o’er,

And the fetter galls no more!

Gone, gone, &c.

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,

To the rice-swamp dank and lone.