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Prayer for the Abolition of Slavery.

1With thy pure dews and rains,

Wash out, O God! the stains

From Afric's shore;

And while her palm trees bud,

Let not her children's blood,

With her broad Niger's flood,

Be mingled more.

2Quench, righteous God! the thirst,