A South-side View of Slavery; Or, Three Months at the South, in 1854, Temas1-9T.R. Marvin, 1854 - 208 páginas |
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Página 84 - Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
Página 26 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 179 - Turns the long light that drops adown the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels' (breaking out in a mad moaning) 'Stop!
Página 179 - We looked into the pit prepared to take her: Was no room for any work in the close clay; From the sleep wherein she lieth, none will wake her, Crying, 'Get up, little Alice! it is day.' If you listen by that grave, in sun and shower, With your ear down, little Alice never cries. Could we see her face, be sure we should not know her, For the smile has time for growing in her eyes; And merry go her moments, lulled and stilled in The shroud by the kirk-chime. It is good when it happens," say the children,...
Página 166 - My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Página 180 - How long," they say, "how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart? Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper, And your purple shows your path; But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath!
Página 99 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
Página 53 - HOW oft have sin and Satan strove To rend my soul from thee, my God ! But everlasting is thy love,' And Jesus seals it with his blood. 2 The oath and promise of the Lord Join to confirm the wondrous grace : Eternal power performs the word, And fills all heaven with endless praise. 3...
Página 206 - God, thy God, will now restore thee; He himself appears thy Friend; All thy foes shall flee before thee; Here their boasts and triumphs end : Great deliverance Zion's King vouchsafes to send. 4 Enemies no more shall trouble, — All thy wrongs shall be redressed ; For thy shame thou shalt have double, In thy Maker's favor blest : All thy conflicts End in everlasting rest.
Página 179 - For all day, the wheels are droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places.