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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391806" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Learning To Read</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Very soon the Yankee teachers<br>Came down and set up school;<br>But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it, -<br>It was agin' their rule.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our masters always tried to hide<br>Book learning from our eyes;<br>Knowledge did'nt agree with slavery -<br>'Twould make us all too wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But some of us would try to steal<br>A little from the book,<br>And put the words together,<br>And learn by hook or crook.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember Uncle Caldwell,<br>Who took pot liquor fat<br>And greased the pages of his book,<br>And hid it in his hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And had his master ever seen<br>The leaves upon his head,<br>He'd have thought them greasy papers,<br>But nothing to be read.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there was Mr. Turner's Ben,<br>Who heard the children spell,<br>And picked the words right up by heart,<br>And learned to read 'em well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, the Northern folks kept sending<br>The Yankee teachers down;<br>And they stood right up and helped us,<br>Though Rebs did sneer and frown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I longed to read my Bible,<br>For precious words it said;<br>But when I begun to learn it,<br>Folks just shook their heads,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And said there is no use trying,<br>Oh! Chloe, you're too late;<br>But as I was rising sixty,<br>I had no time to wait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I got a pair of glasses,<br>And straight to work I went,<br>And never stopped till I could read<br>The hymns and Testament.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I got a little cabin<br>A place to call my own -<br>And I felt as independent<br>As the queen upon her throne.</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>
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Came down and set up school;
But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it, -
It was agin' their rule.

Our masters always tried to hide
Book learning from our eyes;
Knowledge did'nt agree with slavery -
'Twould make us all too w..."></div>
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