<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117481" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Enfranchised Slaves to Their Benefactress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, blessings on thee, lady! we could lie<br>Down at thy feet, in our deep gratitude,<br>And give ourselves to die,<br>So thou could'st be made happier by our blood;<br>Yet life has never seem'd so dear as now,<br>That we may lift a free, unbranded brow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the deep silence of the starry night,<br>Our lips shall call down blessings on thy head;<br>And the first gush of light,<br>That in its splendour o'er the world is spread,<br>Shall view us bow'd in prayer, that life may be<br>A calm and sunny day of joy for thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Free! free!—how glorious 't is to lift an eye,<br>Unblenching beneath infamy and shame,<br>To the blue boundless sky,<br>And feel each moment from our hearts, the tame<br>Dull pulses of our vileness pass away,<br>Like sluggish mists before the rising day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then our infants! we shall never see<br>Their young limbs cheapen'd at the public mart,<br>Or shrink in agony,<br>To view them writhe beneath the cruel smart<br>Of the rude lash;—they ne'er like us shall know<br>The slave's dark lot of wretchedness and woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this we bless thee, lady! and may Heaven<br>Pour down its frequent blessings on thy brow;<br>And to thy life be given,<br>Oft through its sunset hours, such bliss as now<br>Is swelling round thy heart—scarce less than theirs<br>Who pour for thee their deep and grateful prayers.</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=117481" data-title="The Enfranchised Slaves to Their Benefactress de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="Oh, blessings on thee, lady! we could lie/Down at thy feet, in our deep gratitude,/And give ourselves to die,/So thou could'st be made happier by our blood;/Yet life has never seem'd so dear as now,/That we may lift a free, unbranded brow./In the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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