Now, now, on me will pour,

Hope, hope, on me is dawning,

I'm not a slave any more!

No, no—oh, no,

I'm a free man evermore!


THE BEREAVED SLAVE MOTHER.

Oh! deep was the anguish of the Slave Mother's heart,

When call'd from her darling forever to part;

So grieved that lone Mother, that heart-broken Mother,