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For what? To labour without hope, Beneath a foreign sky; To gather up unrighteous wealth; To droop, decline and die!

9. Such wrong is darkly visited; The masters have their part; For theirs had been the blinded eye, And theirs the hardened heart. Evil may spring unchecked Within the mortal soul; If such plague-spot be not removed, It must corrupt the whole.

10. The future doth avenge the past: Now, for thy future's sake, Oh! England for the guilty part A deep atonement make. The slave is given to thy charge, He hopes from thee alone; And thou for every soul so given Must answer with thine own.

The character of L. E. L.'s mind affords a most interesting study to the mental philosopher.* The