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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508123" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The Genius Of Africa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O thou who from the mountain's height<br> Roll'st down thy clouds with all their weight<br>Of waters to old Niles majestic tide;<br> Or o'er the dark sepulchral plain<br>Recallest thy Palmyra's ancient pride,<br> Amid whose desolated domes<br> Secure the savage chacal roams,<br>Where from the fragments of the hallow'd fane<br>The Arabs rear their miserable homes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear Genius hear thy children's cry!<br> Not always should'st thou love to brood<br> Stern o'er the desert solitude<br>Where seas of sand toss their hot surges high;<br> Nor Genius should the midnight song<br>Detain thee in some milder mood<br> The palmy plains among<br>Where Gambia to the torches light<br>Flows radiant thro' the awaken'd night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, linger not to hear the song!<br>Genius avenge thy children's wrong!<br>The Daemon COMMERCE on your shore<br> Pours all the horrors of his train,<br>And hark! where from the field of gore<br> Howls the hyena o'er the slain!<br>Lo! where the flaming village fires the skies!<br>Avenging Power awake--arise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arise thy children's wrong redress!<br>Ah heed the mother's wretchedness<br>When in the hot infectious air<br> O'er her sick babe she bows opprest--<br>Ah hear her when the Christians tear<br> The drooping infant from her breast!<br> Whelm'd in the waters he shall rest!<br>Hear thou the wretched mother's cries,<br>Avenging Power awake! arise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> By the rank infected air<br> That taints those dungeons of despair,<br> By those who there imprison'd die<br> Where the black herd promiscuous lie,<br> By the scourges blacken'd o'er<br> And stiff and hard with human gore,<br> By every groan of deep distress<br> By every curse of wretchedness,<br> By all the train of Crimes that flow<br> From the hopelessness of Woe,<br> By every drop of blood bespilt,<br> By Afric's wrongs and Europe's guilt,<br> Awake! arise! avenge!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou hast heard! and o'er their blood-fed plains<br>Swept thine avenging hurricanes;<br>And bade thy storms with whirlwind roar<br>Dash their proud navies on the shore;<br>And where their armies claim'd the fight<br>Wither'd the warrior's might;<br>And o'er the unholy host with baneful breath<br>There Genius thou hast breath'd the gales of Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So perish still the robbers of mankind!<br>What tho' from Justice bound and blind<br>Inhuman Power has snatch'd the sword!<br> What tho' thro' many an ignominious age<br> That Fiend with desolating rage<br>The tide of carnage pour'd!<br>Justice shall yet unclose her eyes,<br>Terrific yet in wrath arise,<br>And trample on the tyrant's breast,<br>And make Oppresion groan opprest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</a><div class=q>
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 Roll'st down thy clouds with all their weight
Of waters to old Niles majestic tide;
 Or o'er the dark sepulchral plain
Recallest thy Palmyra's ancient pride,
 Amid whose desolated domes
 Secure the savage cha..."></div>
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