I Sit and Look OutI sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon alloppression and shame,I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish withthemselves, 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 seducerof young women,I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to behid, I see these sights on the earth,I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs andprisoners,I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots whoshall be kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest,I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons uponlaborers, 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.
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon alloppression and shame,I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish withthemselves, 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 seducerof young women,I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to behid, I see these sights on the earth,I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs andprisoners,I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots whoshall be kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest,I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons uponlaborers, 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.