Support the fainting weakness that recoils
At well-known grief's, at long-supported toils:
Extend thine hand where threat'ning gulphs are spread;
Lift thy broad shield where storms beat round the head:
Illume the dreary waste—inspire the lay—
Guide feeble pow'rs along the arduous way:
Assist to paint the melancholy view,
The dismal, the disgraceful track pursue,
And with the Eagle-eye of Truth pervade
All the dark mazes of th' inhuman trade.