<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Reunion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, one morning real early<br>I was going down the street,<br>And I heard a stranger asking<br>For Missis Chloe Fleet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was something in his voice<br>That made me feel quite shaky.<br>And when I looked right in his face,<br>Who should it be but Jakey!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I grasped him tight, and took him home -<br>What gladness filled my cup!<br>And I laughed, and just rolled over,<br>And laughed, and just give up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Where have you been? O Jakey, dear!<br>Why didn't you come before?<br>Oh! when you children went away<br>My heart was awful sore.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why, mammy, I've been on your hunt<br>Since ever I've been free,<br>And I have heard from brother Ben, -<br>He's down in Tennessee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He wrote me that he had a wife,'<br>'And children?' 'Yes, he's three.'<br>'You married, too?' 'Oh, no, indeed,<br>I thought I'd first get free.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Then, Jakey, you will stay with me,<br>And comfort my poor heart;<br>Old Mistus got no power now<br>To tear us both apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I'm richer now than Mistus,<br>Because I have got my son;<br>And Mister Thomas he is dead,<br>And she's nary one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You must write to brother Benny<br>That he must come this fall,<br>And we'll make the cabin bigger,<br>And that will hold us all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tell him I want to see 'em all<br>Before my life do cease:<br>And then, like good old Simeon,<br>I hope to die in peace.'</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=391844" data-title="The Reunion de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="Well, one morning real early I was going down the street, And I heard a stranger asking For Missis Chloe Fleet. There was something in his voice That made me feel quite shaky. And when I looked right in his face, Who should it be but Jakey! I gr..."></div> </div> </div>

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