<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Conquerors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won,<br>Blown with the breath of the far-speaking gun,<br>Goes the word.<br>Bravely you spoke through the battle cloud heavy and dun.<br>Tossed though the speech toward the mist-hidden sun,<br>The world heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hell would have shrunk from you seeking it fresh from the fray,<br>Grim with the dust of the battle, and gray<br>From the fight.<br>Heaven would have crowned you, with crowns not of gold but of bay,<br>Owning you fit for the light of her day,<br>Men of night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far through the cycle of years and of lives that shall come,<br>There shall speak voices long muffled and dumb,<br>Out of fear.<br>And through the noises of trade and the turbulent hum,<br>Truth shall rise over the militant drum,<br>Loud and clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then on the cheek of the honester nation that grows,<br>All for their love of you, not for your woes,<br>There shall lie<br>Tears that shall be to your souls as the dew to the rose;<br>Afterward thanks, that the present yet knows<br>Not to ply!</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=477836" data-title="The Conquerors de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won, Blown with the breath of the far-speaking gun, Goes the word. Bravely you spoke through the battle cloud heavy and dun. Tossed though the speech toward the mis..."></div> </div> </div>

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