<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391785" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Church Building</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Uncle Jacob often told us,<br>Since freedom blessed our race<br>We ought all to come together<br>And build a meeting place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we pinched, and scraped, and spared,<br>A little here and there:<br>Though our wages was but scanty,<br>The church did get a share.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, when the house was finished,<br>Uncle Jacob came to pray;<br>He was looking mighty feeble,<br>And his head was awful gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But his voice rang like a trumpet;<br>His eyes looked bright and young;<br>And it seemed a mighty power<br>Was resting on his tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he gave us all his blessing -<br>'Twas parting words he said,<br>For soon we got the message<br>The dear old man was dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I believe he's in the kingdom,<br>For when we shook his hand<br>He said, 'Children, you must meet me<br>Right in the promised land;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For when I done a moiling<br>And toiling here below,<br>Through the gate into the city<br>Straightway I hope to go.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</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=391785" data-title="Church Building de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="Uncle Jacob often told us, Since freedom blessed our race We ought all to come together And build a meeting place. So we pinched, and scraped, and spared, A little here and there: Though our wages was but scanty, The church did get a share. And,..."></div> </div> </div>

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