<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420460" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brown Of Ossawatomie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Brown of Ossawatomie spake on his dying day:<br>'I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery's pay.<br>But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free,<br>With her children, from the gallows-stair put up a prayer for me!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Brown of Ossawatomie, they led him out to die;<br>And lo! a poor slave-mother with her little child pressed nigh.<br>Then the bold, blue eye grew tender, and the old harsh face grew mild,<br>As he stooped between the jeering ranks and kissed the negro's child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shadows of his stormy life that moment fell apart;<br>And they who blamed the bloody hand forgave the loving heart.<br>That kiss from all its guilty means redeemed the good intent,<br>And round the grisly fighter's hair the martyr's aureole bent!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good<br>Long live the generous purpose unstained with human blood!<br>Not the raid of midnight terror, but the thought which underlies;<br>Not the borderer's pride of daring, but the Christian's sacrifice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nevermore may yon Blue Ridges the Northern rifle hear,<br>Nor see the light of blazing homes flash on the negro's spear.<br>But let the free-winged angel Truth their guarded passes scale,<br>To teach that right is more than might, and justice more than mail!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So vainly shall Virginia set her battle in array;<br>In vain her trampling squadrons knead the winter snow with clay.<br>She may strike the pouncing eagle, but she dares not harm the dove;<br>And every gate she bars to Hate shall open wide to Love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420460" data-title="Brown Of Ossawatomie de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="John Brown of Ossawatomie spake on his dying day: 'I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery's pay. But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free, With her children, from the gallows-stair put up a prayer for me!' John Br..."></div> </div> </div>

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