<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sugar-Plums</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, no, pretty sugar-plums! stay where you are!<br>Though my grandmother sent you to me from so far;<br>You look very nice, you would taste very sweet,<br>And I love you right well, yet not one will I eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the poor slaves have labour'd, far down in the south,<br>To make you so sweet and so nice for my mouth;<br>But I want no slaves toiling for me in the sun,<br>Driven on with the whip, till the long day is done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps some poor slave child, that hoed up the ground,<br>Round the cane in whose rich juice your sweetness was found,<br>Was flogg'd, till his mother cried sadly to see,<br>And I'm sure I want nobody beaten for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So grandma, I thank you for being so kind,<br>But your present, to-day, is not much to my mind;<br>Though I love you so dearly, I choose not to eat<br>Even what you have sent me by slavery made sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus said little Fanny, and skipp'd off to play,<br>Leaving all her nice sugar-plums just where they lay,<br>As merry as if they had gone in her mouth,<br>And she had not cared for the slaves of the south.</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=117550" data-title="The Sugar-Plums de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="No, no, pretty sugar-plums! stay where you are!/Though my grandmother sent you to me from so far;/You look very nice, you would taste very sweet,/And I love you right well, yet not one will I eat./For the poor slaves have labour'd, far down in the..."></div> </div> </div>

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