<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358181" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lynching</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. <br>His father, by the cruelest way of pain, <br>Had bidden him to his bosom once again; <br>The awful sin remained still unforgiven. <br>All night a bright and solitary star <br>(Perchance the one that ever guided him, <br>Yet gave him up at last to Fate's wild whim) <br>Hung pitifully o'er the swinging char. <br>Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view <br>The ghastly body swaying in the sun <br>The women thronged to look, but never a one <br>Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue; <br>And little lads, lynchers that were to be, <br>Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claude+McKay">Claude McKay</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=358181" data-title="The Lynching de Claude McKay" data-description="His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven. All night a bright and solitary star (Perchance the one that ever guided hi..."></div> </div> </div>

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