The frantic mother calls her sever'd child.

One universal tumult raves around;

From boat to ship responds the frenzied sound:

With tenfold anguish bursts before the throne,

Where Justice sits, and calls the thunder down.

Immortal Power! in whose impartial gaze,

Nor clime, nor realm can vain distinction raise;

No worm-rais'd station thy attention draws,

Nor tinctur'd skin contracts thy ample laws;

But, to thy bounteous eye, the extended frame