<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117384" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Grave of The Unfortunate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Light fall the early dews of even, and out upon the air<br>The cereus flowers fling lavishly the fragrance that they bear;<br>One star, of all the eyes of heaven, is yet alone awake,<br>And sends abroad its prying glance to gaze on bower and lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come bid the silent lute breathe out a low and mournful strain,<br>A sad and tearful melody, a wailing for the slain;<br>And as the notes glide far away, I'll tell thee how one died,<br>Who sleeps in quiet loneliness, forgotten, by thy side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weary slave had left his toil;—it was an eve like this,<br>But to his heart its loveliness would bring no throb of bliss;<br>He only thought of former days, when she who shared his chains<br>Had roved in freedom by his side, amid their native plains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cry of anguish caught his ear—in shrieks she breathed his name,<br>And forward to his cot he sprung with heart and pulse of flame;<br>Amid her weeping babes she knelt, and o'er her crouching head<br>The white man's lash in mockery swung, all newly stain'd with red.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One blow has fell'd him to the earth—one blow alone was lent,<br>And from the cot in rage and shame the tyrant master went;<br>But for that blow a felon's death the Afric chieftain died,<br>And here, forgot by all but her, he slumbers by thy side.</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=117384" data-title="The Grave of The Unfortunate de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="Light fall the early dews of even, and out upon the air/The cereus flowers fling lavishly the fragrance that they bear;/One star, of all the eyes of heaven, is yet alone awake,/And sends abroad its prying glance to gaze on bower and lake./Come bid..."></div> </div> </div>

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