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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Retribution</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Egypt said, 'Exterminate<br>The males among the Jews,<br>Fair Goshen's land make desolate<br>And bid them glad adieus:'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The darkest hour then was brought<br>Upon their slavery,<br>But God came down, with Egypt fought,<br>And made the bondsmen free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No means of peace within the bout<br>Could pay the price—'tis plain—<br>The measure they had meted out<br>Was measured back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For blood of Hebrews had been spilt,<br>And justice did demand<br>Egyptian blood to cleanse the guilt—<br>The firstborn of the land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America! how canst thou tell<br>Thy tale of bondage sore?<br>How blood as rain from Negroes fell,<br>Till many were no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blood of Negroes cried so loud,<br>For vengeance from the ground,<br>Till clouds of sorrow wept and bowed<br>And heaven's anger frowned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No peaceful means, 'tis understood,<br>Could end the dread affray;<br>For justice cried, 'Slave-owners' blood<br>In war the debt shall pay!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Negroes of the country now<br>Are held in open scorn,<br>To other peoples forced to bow,<br>Though often higher born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To lynch a Negro is no crime,<br>The courts of justice say;<br>And so 'tis done at any time,<br>A mob may set a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night is darkest near the dawn,<br>The voice of nature speaks;<br>The blood that's from the Negroes drawn<br>A retribution seeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Revenge is mine, I will repay,'<br>The God of right declares.<br>The savage mob, with regal sway<br>A nation's curse prepares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America! a warning take,<br>Repent! forsake the wrong!<br>Thine evil ways at once forsake,<br>Thy time cannot be long!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The morning star begins to rise,<br>The darkest night dispels,<br>Its ray of hope illumes the skies,<br>And precious dawn foretells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America! rouse up! awake!<br>For God is living still,<br>Who will of wrong a sample make,<br>When sin has drunk its fill!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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The males among the Jews,
Fair Goshen's land make desolate
And bid them glad adieus:'

The darkest hour then was brought
Upon their slavery,
But God came down, with Egypt fought,
And made the bondsmen free.

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