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By Whittier, John Greenleaf
But vain were bird and blossom,
The green earth and the sky,
And the smile of human faces,
To the slaver's darkened eye;
At the breaking of the morning,
At the star-lit evening time,
O'er a world of light and beauty
Artist: Whittier, John Greenleaf
Year: 1850