<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420782" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rendition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I HEARD the train's shrill whistle call,<br>I saw an earnest look beseech,<br>And rather by that look than speech<br>My neighbor told me all.<br>And, as I thought of Liberty<br>Marched handcuffed down that sworded street,<br>The solid earth beneath my feet<br>Reeled fluid as the sea.<br>I felt a sense of bitter loss, —<br>Shame, tearless grief, and stifling wrath,<br>And loathing fear, as if my path<br>A serpent stretched across.<br>All love of home, all pride of place,<br>All generous confidence and trust,<br>Sank smothering in that deep disgust<br>And anguish of disgrace.<br>Down on my native hills of June,<br>And home's green quiet, hiding all,<br>Fell sudden darkness like the fall<br>Of midnight upon noon!<br>And Law, an unloosed maniac, strong,<br>Blood-drunken, through the blackness trod,<br>Hoarse-shouting in the ear of God<br>The blasphemy of wrong.<br>'O Mother, from thy memories proud,<br>Thy old renown, dear Commonwealth,<br>Lend this dead air a breeze of health,<br>And smite with stars this cloud.<br>'Mother of Freedom, wise and brave,<br>Rise awful in thy strength,' I said;<br>Ah me! I spake but to the dead;<br>I stood upon her grave!</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=420782" data-title="The Rendition de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="I HEARD the train's shrill whistle call, I saw an earnest look beseech, And rather by that look than speech My neighbor told me all. And, as I thought of Liberty Marched handcuffed down that sworded street, The solid earth beneath my feet Reeled f..."></div> </div> </div>

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