<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117380" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Kneeling Slave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pity the negro, lady! her's is not,<br>Like thine, a blessed and most happy lot!<br>Thou, shelter'd ‘neath a parent's tireless care,<br>The fondly loved, the theme of many a prayer,<br>Blessing, and blest, amidst thy circling friends,<br>Whose love repays the joys thy presence lends,<br>Tread'st gaily onward, o'er thy path of flowers,<br>With ceaseless summer lingering round thy bowers.<br>But her—the outcast of a frowning fate,<br>Long weary years of servile bondage wait.<br>Her lot uncheer'd by hope's reviving gale,<br>The lowest in life's graduated scale—<br>The few poor hours of bliss that cheer her still,<br>Uncertain pensioners on a master's will—<br>'Midst ceaseless toils renew'd from day to day,<br>She wears in bitter tears her life away.<br>She is thy sister, woman! shall her cry,<br>Uncared for, and unheeded, pass thee by?<br>Wilt thou not weep to see her rank so low,<br>And seek to raise her from her place of woe?<br>Or has thy heart grown selfish in its bliss,<br>That thou shouldst view unmoved a fate like this?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117380" data-title="The Kneeling Slave de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="Pity the negro, lady! her's is not,/Like thine, a blessed and most happy lot!/Thou, shelter'd ‘neath a parent's tireless care,/The fondly loved, the theme of many a prayer,/Blessing, and blest, amidst thy circling friends,/Whose love repays the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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