William Cowper - Epigram

William Cowper - Epigram

To purify their wine some people bleed br A lamb into the barrel, and succeed; br No nostrum, planters say, is half so good br To make fine sugar, as a negro's blood. br Now lambs and negroes both are harmless things, br And thence perhaps this wondrous virtue springs. br 'Tis in the blood of innocence alone-- br Good cause why planters never try their own.


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