<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Formerly A Slave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sufferance of her race is shown,<br>And retrospect of life,<br>Which now too late deliverance dawns upon;<br>Yet is she not at strife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her children's children they shall know<br>The good withheld from her;<br>And so her reverie takes prophetic cheer--<br>In spirit she sees the stir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far down the depth of thousand years,<br>And marks the revel shine;<br>Her dusky face is lit with sober light,<br>Sibylline, yet benign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</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=409917" data-title="Formerly A Slave de Herman Melville" data-description="The sufferance of her race is shown, And retrospect of life, Which now too late deliverance dawns upon; Yet is she not at strife. Her children's children they shall know The good withheld from her; And so her reverie takes prophetic cheer-- In sp..."></div> </div> </div>

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