<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390703" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>There Lies A Stain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The continuous noise of a rock being struck, <br>Multiplying hundreds of times.<br>The pick on stone, like the hammer that strikes, <br>on a clock that forever chimes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The well muscled arms, and the sweating backs, <br>toiled onwards with not a thirst slaked.<br>These stolen men, harshly chained to a line, <br>Oh, how their shattered bodies ached.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">White dust seeped into each eye and dry mouth, <br>beneath that cruel blistering heat.<br>From sunrise they‘d work until past sunset, <br>with barely a moment to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For wealth they were seized, captive they’d remain, <br>No status within our country.<br>And in history books, lies a huge stain, <br>of the evil of slavery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</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=390703" data-title="There Lies A Stain de Ernestine Northover" data-description="The continuous noise of a rock being struck, Multiplying hundreds of times. The pick on stone, like the hammer that strikes, on a clock that forever chimes. The well muscled arms, and the sweating backs, toiled onwards with not a thirst slaked..."></div> </div> </div>

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