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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,