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so delightful to the eye of freemen"--
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don't you wish you could write like this when you're 26?--
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"Were to me so many shrouded ghosts,
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to terrify and torment me
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with thoughts of my wretched condition.
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I have often, in the deep stillness of a summer Sabbath,
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stood all alone upon the
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lofty banks of that noble bay and traced,
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with saddened heart and tearful eye,
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the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean."
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Douglass was fond of adjectives.
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"The sight of these always affected me powerfully.