Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Slaveowner Auld

1877 when

Captain Auld was on his deathbed,

He asked for a former slave then

To visit before he was dead.

And the former slave did agree

To come to visit this man who

Had long treated him horribly.

This former slave was able to

Escape to freedom and to build

A life devoted to the aim

Of ending slavery fulfilled,

And in that effort gained much fame.

To Captain Auld, his former slave,

Frederick Douglass, forgiveness gave.