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A time there was, when no one thought

It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought,

And of his strength have the command,

As much as of his house and land.

A Yankee Lawyer long had kept

A negro-man with whom he slept.

And ate, and Sabbath day,

He half the time from church would stay;

When Cuff his master's garments wore.—

'Twas strange you say, but he was poor;

And though he cared not for Cuff's soul,

Yet such the times, that on the whole,

His slave must to the meeting go,

If 'twas for nothing but a show.

They lived on thus for several years—

One would not think, that many tears

Would fall from off that shining face,

So sleek and smooth, or he would trace