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Poem: To Sleep, written after a night's incarceration in prison from William Lloyd Garrison

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In this poem written by William Lloyd Garrison, he describes the joy of sleeping although being imprisoned in jail. "Even to this desolate place - Thou com'st, as 'twere a palace trimm'd with gold," Garrison writes.

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1832 - 1867
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