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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532721" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Simon Legree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Negro Sermon.<br>(To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Legree’s big house was white and green.<br>His cotton-fields were the best to be seen.<br>He had strong horses and opulent cattle,<br>And bloodhounds bold, with chains that would rattle.<br>His garret was full of curious things:<br>Books of magic, bags of gold,<br>And rabbits’ feet on long twine strings.<br>BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Legree he sported a brass-buttoned coat,<br>A snake-skin necktie, a blood-red shirt.<br>Legree he had a beard like a goat,<br>And a thick hairy neck, and eyes like dirt.<br>His puffed-out cheeks were fish-belly white,<br>He had great long teeth, and an appetite.<br>He ate raw meat, ‘most every meal,<br>And rolled his eyes till the cat would squeal.<br>His fist was an enormous size<br>To mash poor niggers that told him lies:<br>He was surely a witch-man in disguise.<br>BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wore hip-boots, and would wade all day<br>To capture his slaves that had fled away.<br>BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He beat poor Uncle Tom to death<br>Who prayed for Legree with his last breath.<br>Then Uncle Tom to Eva flew,<br>To the high sanctoriums bright and new;<br>And Simon Legree stared up beneath,<br>And cracked his heels, and ground his teeth:<br>AND WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He crossed the yard in the storm and gloom;<br>He went into his grand front room.<br>He said, “I killed him, and I don’t care.”<br>He kicked a hound, he gave a swear;<br>He tightened his belt, he took a lamp,<br>Went down cellar to the webs and damp.<br>There in the middle of the mouldy floor<br>He heaved up a slab, he found a door—<br>AND WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His lamp blew out, but his eyes burned bright.<br>Simon Legree stepped down all night—<br>DOWN, DOWN TO THE DEVIL.<br>Simon Legree he reached the place,<br>He saw one half of the human race,<br>He saw the Devil on a wide green throne,<br>Gnawing the meat from a big ham-bone,<br>And he said to Mister Devil:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I see that you have much to eat—<br>A red ham-bone is surely sweet.<br>I see that you have lion’s feet;<br>I see your frame is fat and fine,<br>I see you drink your poison wine—<br>Blood and burning turpentine.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Devil said to Simon Legree:<br>“I like your style, so wicked and free.<br>Come sit and share my throne with me,<br>And let us bark and revel.”<br>And there they sit and gnash their teeth,<br>And each one wears a hop-vine wreath.<br>They are matching pennies and shooting craps,<br>They are playing poker and taking naps.<br>And old Legree is fat and fine:<br>He eats the fire, he drinks the wine—<br>Blood and burning turpentine—<br>DOWN, DOWN WITH THE DEVIL;<br>DOWN, DOWN WITH THE DEVIL;<br>DOWN, DOWN WITH THE DEVIL.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Vachel+Lindsay">Vachel Lindsay</a><div class=q>
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Legree’s big house was white and green.
His cotton-fields were the best to be seen.
He had strong horses and opulent cattle,
And bloodhounds bold, with chains that would rattle..."></div>
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