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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.
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My thoughts would compel utterance,
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and there with no audience but the Almighty
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I would pour out my soul's complaint"--
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a phrase right from the Book of Job--
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"In my rude way,
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with an apostrophe to the moving multitudes of ships."
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And when you read this, note what he does then,
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he puts his own teenage voice, or his memory,