264 NOTES AND TESTIMONIES.

 Drunken and grim, with shout and yell
 Howled through the dark, like sounds from Hell I

 Far out in peace the white man's sail
 Swayed fire before the sunrise gale.
 Cloud-like that island hung alar
 Along the bright horizon's verge,
 O'er whi,-h the i-urze of .srvile war
 Rolled its red torrent, surge on surge.
 And he, the N.gro ithampian where
 In the fierre tumult. rtrntgled he?
 Go tra'e him hy tlne fi.ry glart
 Of dwttllirpi in the itw.Iniglht air,
 The iecls o1 triumph and dvepair,
 The streams thar ( rimsou to the sea I

 Sleep calmly in thy dungeon-tomb,
 Beneath Be-sancon'& alien sky,
 Dark Ilaytian fIr the time shall come,
 Yea, -eLn u,:u.V is iiih,.
 Whrn everywhere tbh uiamIl. hall be
 Redeemed frcm m crlor's inhmu ;
 And rmn 'shall I.-arn tr speak of thee,
 As one -it earth'i- grt -pint4 born
 In servitude and nur-.d in ,o-vrn,
 Casting atlide their weary weight
 And lctt. -rs of it. low r .tate,
 In that trnng- maujt-ty .-t. a:ul
 Which knows no col.,r. tongue, or clime,
 Wlhi-h till bath spurned the ibare -ontrol
 Of t %rant3 thru-,ah all timni- !
 For either hand.- than ,ijui- may wreathe
 The- laur-ri round thy rinow t;l draith,
 .\ndl -p-ak thIy praise ai one 1 hoine word
 A tlhoiuaud G6.r' .pnirit4- tirr--,l,-