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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355174" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Conquest Of Prejudice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto a Yorkshire school was sent<br>A negro youth to learn to write,<br>And the first day young Juba went<br>All gazed on him as a rare sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But soon with altered looks askance<br>They view his sable face and form,<br>When they perceive the scornful glance<br>Of the head boy, young Henry Orme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He in the school was first in fame:<br>Said he, 'It does to me appear<br>To be a great disgrace and shame<br>A black should be admitted here.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>His words were quickly whispered round,<br>And every boy now looks offended;<br>The master saw the change, and found<br>That Orme a mutiny intended.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Said he to Orme, 'This African<br>It seems is not by you approved;<br>I'll find a way, young Englishman,<br>To have this prejudice removed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Nearer acquaintance possibly<br>May make you tolerate his hue;<br>At least 'tis my intent to try<br>What a short month may chance to do.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Young Orme and Juba then he led<br>Into a room, in which there were<br>For each of the two boys a bed,<br>A table, and a wicker chair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He locked them in, secured the key,<br>That all access to them was stopt;<br>They from without can nothing see;<br>Their food is through a skylight dropt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A month in this lone chamber Orme<br>Is sentenced during all that time<br>To view no other face or form<br>Than Juba's parched by Afric clime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>One word they neither of them spoke<br>The first three days of the first week;<br>On the fourth day the ice was broke;<br>Orme was the first that deigned to speak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The dreary silence o'er, both glad<br>To hear of human voice the sound,<br>The negro and the English lad<br>Comfort in mutual converse found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Of ships and seas and foreign coast<br>Juba can speak, for he has been<br>A voyager: and Orme can boast<br>He London's famous town has seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In eager talk they pass the day,<br>And borrow hours even from the night;<br>So pleasantly time passed away,<br>That they have lost their reckoning quite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And when their master set them free,<br>They thought a week was sure remitted,<br>And thanked him that their liberty<br>Had been before the time permitted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now Orme and Juba are good friends;<br>The school, by Orme's example won,<br>Contend who most shall make amends<br>For former slights to Afric's son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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A negro youth to learn to write,
And the first day young Juba went
All gazed on him as a rare sight.


But soon with altered looks askance
They view his sable face and form,
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