<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477668" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Emancipation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,<br>Raise to the ether your paeans of praise.<br>Strike every chord and let music be ringing!<br>Celebrate freely this day of all days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few are the years since that notable blessing,<br>Raised you from slaves to the powers of men.<br>Each year has seen you my brothers progressing,<br>Never to sink to that level again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perched on your shoulders sits Liberty smiling,<br>Perched where the eyes of the nations can see.<br>Keep from her pinions all contact defiling;<br>Show by your deeds what you're destined to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Press boldly forward nor waver, nor falter.<br>Blood has been freely poured out in your cause,<br>Lives sacrificed upon Liberty's alter.<br>Press to the front, it were craven to pause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look to the heights that are worth your attaining<br>Keep your feet firm in the path to the goal.<br>Toward noble deeds every effort be straining.<br>Worthy ambition is food for the soul!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up! Men and brothers, be noble, be earnest!<br>Ripe is the time and success is assured;<br>Know that your fate was the hardest and sternest<br>When through those lash-ringing days you endured.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never again shall the manacles gall you<br>Never again shall the whip stroke defame!<br>Nobles and Freemen, your destinies call you<br>Onward to honor, to glory and fame.</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> <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=477668" data-title="Emancipation de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing, Raise to the ether your paeans of praise. Strike every chord and let music be ringing! Celebrate freely this day of all days. Few are the years since that notable blessing, Raised you from slaves t..."></div> </div> </div>

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