<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397003" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Liberty And Slavery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! and am I born for this, <br>To wear this slavish chain? <br>Deprived of all created bliss, <br>Through hardship, toil and pain! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>How long have I in bondage lain, <br>And languished to be free! <br>Alas! and must I still complain-- <br>Deprived of liberty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh, Heaven! and is there no relief <br>This side the silent grave-- <br>To soothe the pain--to quell the grief <br>And anguish of a slave? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Come Liberty, thou cheerful sound, <br>Roll through my ravished ears! <br>Come, let my grief in joys be drowned, <br>And drive away my fears. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Say unto foul oppression, Cease: <br>Ye tyrants rage no more, <br>And let the joyful trump of peace, <br>Now bid the vassal soar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Soar on the pinions of that dove <br>Which long has cooed for thee, <br>And breathed her notes from Afric's grove, <br>The sound of Liberty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh, Liberty! thou golden prize, <br>So often sought by blood-- <br>We crave thy sacred sun to rise, <br>The gift of nature's God: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Bid Slavery hide her haggard face, <br>And barbarism fly: <br>I scorn to see the sad disgrace <br>In which enslaved I lie. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Dear Liberty! upon thy breast, <br>I languish to respire; <br>And like the Swan unto her nest, <br>I'd to thy smiles retire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh, blest asylum--heavenly balm! <br>Unto thy boughs I flee-- <br>And in thy shades the storm shall calm, <br>With songs of Liberty!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Moses+Horton">George Moses Horton</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=397003" data-title="On Liberty And Slavery de George Moses Horton" data-description="Alas! and am I born for this, To wear this slavish chain? Deprived of all created bliss, Through hardship, toil and pain! How long have I in bondage lain, And languished to be free! Alas! and must I still complain-- Deprived of liberty. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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