I+Sit+and+Look+Out


 * I Sit and Look Out **


 * I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; || ||
 * I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; || ||
 * I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate; || ||
 * I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer of young women; || ||
 * I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth; || ||
 * I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and prisoners; || ||
 * I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill’d, to preserve the lives of the rest; || ||
 * I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like; || ||
 * All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, || ||
 * See, hear, and am silent. || ||

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