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Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of liberty!

Source: Slavery.
-- George Moses Horton, ( c. 1800-1880), US poet; He sold love poems to students in an effort to buy his freedom, though he gained his liberty only with abolition; wrote Naked Genius, 1865.

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