<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392141" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>New Guinea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I SAW them as they were born,<br>Erect and fearless and free,<br>Facing the sun and the wind<br>Of the hills and the sea.<br>I saw them naked, superb,<br>Like the Greeks long ago,<br>With shield and spear and arrow<br>Ready to strike and throw.<br>I saw them as they were made<br>By the Christianizing crows,<br>Blinking, stupid, clumsy,<br>In their greasy ill-cut clothes:<br>I heard their gibbering cant,<br>And they sung those hymns that smell<br>Of poor souls besotted, degraded<br>With the fear of 'God' and 'Hell.'<br>And I thought if Jesus could see them,<br>He who loved the freedom, the light,<br>And loathed those who compassed heaven<br>And earth for one proselyte,<br>To make him, etcetera, etcetera, —<br>Then this sight, as on me or you,<br>Would act on him like an emetic,<br>And he'd have to go off and spue.<br>O Jesus, O man of the People,<br>Who died to abolish all this —<br>The Pharisee rank and respectable,<br>The Scribe and the scabrous Priest —<br>O Jesus, O sacred Socialist,<br>You would die again of shame,<br>If you were alive and could see<br>What things are done in your Name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+William+Lauderdale+Adams">Francis William Lauderdale Adams</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=392141" data-title="New Guinea de Francis William Lauderdale Adams" data-description="I SAW them as they were born, Erect and fearless and free, Facing the sun and the wind Of the hills and the sea. I saw them naked, superb, Like the Greeks long ago, With shield and spear and arrow Ready to strike and throw. I saw them as they were..."></div> </div> </div>

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