<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38174" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Black Boy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother bore me in the southern wild,<br>And I am black, but O! my soul is white<br>White as an angel is the English child:<br>But I am black as if bereav'd of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother taught me underneath a tree<br>And sitting down before the heat of day<br>She took me on her lap and kissed me,<br>And pointing to the east began to say:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look on the rising sun: there God does live<br>And gives his light, and gives his heat away<br>And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive<br>Comfort in morning joy in the noonday.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we are put on earth a little space<br>That we may learn to bear the beams of love.<br>And these black bodies and this sunburnt face<br>Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear<br>The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice,<br>Saying: come out from the grove my love & care<br>And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus did my mother say and kissed me.<br>And thus I say to little English boy.<br>When I from black and he from white cloud free,<br>And round the tent of God like lambs we joy:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear<br>To lean in joy upon our fathers knee.<br>And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair,<br>And be like him and he will then love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Blake">William Blake</a> from <i>Songs of Innocence</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=38174" data-title="The Little Black Boy de William Blake" data-description="My mother bore me in the southern wild,/And I am black, but O! my soul is white/White as an angel is the English child:/But I am black as if bereav'd of light./My mother taught me underneath a tree/And sitting down before the heat of day/She took ..."></div> </div> </div>

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