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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477629" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chrismus On The Plantation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day--<br>Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of us was gay;<br>Cose you 'll t'ink dat 's mighty funny 'twell I try to mek hit cleah,<br>Fu' a da'ky 's allus happy when de holidays is neah.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we wasn't, fu' dat mo'nin' Mastah 'd tol' us we mus' go,<br>He 'd been payin' us sence freedom, but he couldn't pay no mo';'<br>He wa'n't nevah used to plannin' 'fo' he got so po' an' ol',<br>So he gwine to give up tryin', an' de homestead mus' be sol'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I kin see him stan'in' now erpon de step ez cleah ez day,<br>Wid de win' a-kind o' fondlin' thoo his haih all thin an' gray;<br>An' I 'membah how he trimbled when he said, 'It's ha 'd fu' me,<br>Not to mek yo' Chrismus brightah, but I 'low it wa'n't to be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All de women was a-cryin', an' de men, too, on de sly,<br>An' I noticed somep'n shinin' even in ol' Mastah's eye.<br>But we all stood still to listen ez ol' Ben come f'om de crowd<br>An' spoke up, a-try'n' to steady down his voice and mek it loud:--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Look hyeah, Mastah, I 's been servin' you' fu' lo! dese many yeahs,<br>An' now, sence we 's got freedom an' you 's kind o' po', hit 'pears<br>Dat you want us all to leave you 'cause you don't t'ink you can pay.<br>Ef my membry has n't fooled me, seem dat whut I hyead you say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Er in othah wo'ds, you wants us to fu'git dat you 's been kin',<br>An' ez soon ez you is he'pless, we 's to leave you hyeah behin'.<br>Well, ef dat 's de way dis freedom ac's on people, white er black,<br>You kin jes' tell Mistah Lincum fu' to tek his freedom back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We gwine wo'k dis ol' plantation fu' whatevah we kin git,<br>Fu' I know hit did suppo't us, an' de place kin do it yit.<br>Now de land is yo's, de hands is ouahs, an' I reckon we 'll be brave,<br>An' we 'll bah ez much ez you do w'en we has to scrape an' save.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ol' Mastah stood dah trimblin', but a-smilin' thoo his teahs,<br>An' den hit seemed jes' nachul-like, de place fah rung wid cheahs,<br>An' soon ez dey was quiet, some one sta'ted sof an' low:<br>'Praise God,' an' den we all jined in, 'from whom all blessin's flow!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, dey was n't no use tryin', ouah min's was sot to stay,<br>An' po' ol' Mastah could n't plead ner baig, ner drive us 'way,<br>An' all at once, hit seemed to us, de day was bright agin,<br>So evahone was gay dat night, an' watched de Chrismus in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of us was gay;
Cose you 'll t'ink dat 's mighty funny 'twell I try to mek hit cleah,
Fu' a da'ky 's allus happy when de holidays is neah.

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