<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118531" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was born as free as the silvery light<br>That laughs in a Southern fountain;<br>Free as the sea-fed bird that nests<br>On a Scandinavian mountain,<br>Free as the wind that mocks at the sway<br>And pinioning clasp of another,<br>Yet in the slave they scourged to-day<br>I saw and knew—my brother!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vested in purple I sat apart,<br>But the cord that smote him bruised me;<br>I closed my ears, but the sob that broke<br>From his savage breast accused me;<br>No phrase of reasoning judgement just<br>The plaint of my soul could smother,<br>A creature vile, abased to the dust,<br>I knew him still—my brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the autumn day that had smiled so fair<br>Seemed suddenly overclouded;<br>A gloom, more dreadful than Nature owns,<br>My human mind enshrouded;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought of the power benign that made<br>And bound men one to the other,<br>And I felt in my brother's fear afraid,<br>And ashamed in the shame of my brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</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=118531" data-title="Man de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="I was born as free as the silvery light/That laughs in a Southern fountain;/Free as the sea-fed bird that nests/On a Scandinavian mountain,/Free as the wind that mocks at the sway/And pinioning clasp of another,/Yet in the slave they scourged to-d..."></div> </div> </div>

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