1807

the year to come will in its normal course
bring recollections in most great variety
including some that in strictest propriety
should be proclaimed by rider on swift horse
the names of clarkson and of wilberforce
will be repeated with all due sobriety
but they are not all not indeed the moiety
of those who used their eloquence with force
to end the trade in humans to do the work
that others deemed too hard or mean to do
and suffer that some others could have light
not to commemorate them would be to shirk
our obligations we have to get through
to where our thanks will just reflect our right