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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 the young woman,

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 killed, 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.