<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392398" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sugar and Gold</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Columbus sailed for riches<br>Pizarro and Cortes sought gold<br>The living slaves, the dead of Haiti<br>The Aztecs and the Incas<br>Haunt their testimony and<br>Historical foothold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virginians mined tobacco<br>Brown leaves lustrous by the fields<br>Cured by branded bodies<br>Newly broken in<br>The sweat and joy entirely<br>Extracted by the sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jackson pledged to the Cherokee<br>The land would stay under their feet<br>As long as the grass shall grow<br>And the rivers run, his promise held<br>Until the white man with his dogs<br>Came running to the smell of gold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heavy leaves of cane<br>Lacerate the children's hands<br>As they strip the stands<br>Working without cease<br>By heavy furnaces, consumed<br>By sudden leaps of crystalising flame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Things we may not see<br>When gold is hidden plain<br>Sugar underneath the tongue<br>Sleeping in the cold<br>Evicted by the company<br>Imperial Tobacco Road<br>With time to mine <br>The provenance of gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</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=392398" data-title="Sugar and Gold de Frank Bana" data-description="Columbus sailed for riches Pizarro and Cortes sought gold The living slaves, the dead of Haiti The Aztecs and the Incas Haunt their testimony and Historical foothold Virginians mined tobacco Brown leaves lustrous by the fields Cured by branded bo..."></div> </div> </div>

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