<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408073" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Babylon Is Fallen!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't you see de black clouds<br>Risin' ober yonder,<br>Whar de Massa's old plantation am?<br>Neber you be frightened,<br>Dem is only darkies,<br>Come to jine an' fight for Uncle Sam,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look out dar, now!<br>We's agwine to shoot!<br>Look out dar, don't you understand?<br>(Oh, don't you know dat)<br>Babylon is fallen!<br>Babylon is fallen!<br>An' we's agwine to occupy the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't you see the lightnin'<br>Flashin' in de canebrake,<br>Like as if we's gwine to hab a storm?<br>No! You is mistaken,<br>'Tis darkies' bay'nets,<br>An' de buttons on dar uniform.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Way up in the cornfield,<br>Whar you hear de tunder,<br>Dat is our ole forty-pounder gun;<br>When the shells are missin',<br>Den we load wid punkins,<br>All de same to make the cowards run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mass was de Kernel<br>In de Rebel army,<br>Eber sence he went an' run away;<br>But his lubly darkies,<br>Dey has been a-watchin',<br>An' dey take him pris'ner tudder day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We will be be the Massa,<br>He will be the sarvant,<br>Try him how he like it for a spell;<br>So we crack de Butt'nuts,<br>So we take the Kernel,<br>So the cannon carry back de shell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Clay+Work">Henry Clay Work</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=408073" data-title="Babylon Is Fallen! de Henry Clay Work" data-description="Don't you see de black clouds Risin' ober yonder, Whar de Massa's old plantation am? Neber you be frightened, Dem is only darkies, Come to jine an' fight for Uncle Sam, Look out dar, now! We's agwine to shoot! Look out dar, don't you understand? ..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black