Lyrics

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate; I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women; I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid— I see these sights on the earth; I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners; I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest; I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like; All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon, See, hear, and am silent.