My own, own child! I could not bear

      To look in his face, it was so white.

I covered him up with a kerchief there;

      I covered his face in close and tight:

And he moaned and struggled, as well might be,

For the white child wanted his liberty—

      Ha, ha! he wanted his master right.

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