gone, gone,—sold and gone,
to the rice-swamp dank and lone.
there no mother’s eye is near them,
there no mother’s ear can hear them;
never, when the torturing lash
seams their back with many a gash,
shall a mother’s kindness bless them,
or a mother’s arms caress them.
gone, gone,—sold and gone,
to the rice-swamp dank and lone,
from virginia’s hills and waters;
woe is me, my stolen daughters!

The poem is about a mother of slaves worrying about what is happening to her children, whom have been sold off into Virginia slavery. She is saying the slave owners are probably beating her children as they do all slaves, but she won't be able to hear or see it happen.

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censorship can lead to harmful levels of government control and personal ignorance

Explanation:

This is all what the book is about. Firemen are burning books in order to control the population and by being against it, you're already considered a criminal. You cannot have or read books. It is against the law.

By definition, censorship is: "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security."