V.

“O! barb’rous Pow’r! relentless Fate!

“Does Heav’n’s high will decree

“That some should sleep on beds of state,—

“Some, in the roaring Sea?

“Some, nurs’d in splendour, deal Oppression’s blow,

“While worth and Draco pine—in Slavery and woe!

VI.

“Yon Vessel oft has plough’d the main

“With human traffic fraught;