This paragraph is stating that no matter who, or what you are, we all come from the same blood and live on the same earth.
The revealed by the phrase " they had no confidant" in Ovid's poem is peaceful and relaxing.
It is this line: "<span>Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them."
Douglass admits that the Independence Day is an important date when a great thing happened for all Americans. But he thinks it is inappropriate to celebrate a nationwide holiday when there are millions of members of this nation who are not free and able to celebrate. This festivity makes those people feel even worse.</span>
sonnet 18 no 4
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
The DMV websites would be a good place to start