<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345811" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Slave Boy's Wish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I was that little bird,<br>Up in the bright blue sky,<br>That sings and flies just where he will,<br>And no one asks him why.<br>I wish I was that little brook,<br>That runs so swift along,<br>Through pretty flowers and shining stones,<br>Singing a merry song.<br>I wish I was that butterfly,<br>Without a thought or care,<br>Sporting my pretty, brilliant wings,<br>Like a flower in the air.<br>I wish I was that wild, wild deer,<br>I saw the other day,<br>Who swifter than an arrow flew,<br>Through the forest far away.<br>I wish I was that little cloud,<br>By the gentle south wind driven,<br>Floating along so free and bright,<br>Far, far up into heaven.<br>I'd rather be a cunning fox,<br>And hide me in a cave;<br>I'd rather be a savage wolf,<br>Than what I am-a slave.<br>My mother calls me her good boy,<br>My father calls me brave;<br>What wicked action have I done,<br>That I should be a slave?<br>I saw my little sister sold,<br>So will they do to me;<br>My heavenly Father, let me die,<br>For then I shall be free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><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=345811" data-title="The Slave Boy's Wish de Anonymous Americas" data-description="I wish I was that little bird, Up in the bright blue sky, That sings and flies just where he will, And no one asks him why. I wish I was that little brook, That runs so swift along, Through pretty flowers and shining stones, Singing a merry song. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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