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,