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Oh, though great scourge and terror of our race, While thy strong hand bows down the proudest head, Filling the earth with cries in every place, And grief and wailing o'er the silent dead.
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Yes, tho' in gloom and sadness I may rise,
One blessed strain can soothe my troubled soul,
No sooner wakened than with streaming eyes,
Upward I look, and there I seek my goal.
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Behold, his conscience! Oh what deep repose,
It slumber in one long deadly doze:
Why do you wonder that it thus does sleep;
That crime should prosper, or that guilt so deep,
So long unfelt should seem unscathed, in fine,
Should know no shame, and fear no law divine.
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In vain I was forbidden to write, for when everybody went to bed, I used to light a piece of candle, and when at my leisure I copied the best verses thinking that I could imitate these, I would become a poet.
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I resolved to venture on my escape, and in case of detection, to suffer for something.... I saddled the horse for the first time in my life, put on the bridle, but with such trembling that I hardly knew what I was about.. When I was going away, I heard the sound of a voice saying "God bless you, make haste."
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Juan Francisco Manzano
Born:
1797
Died:
1854
(aged 57)
Bio:
Juan Francisco Manzano was born a slave in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. He wrote two works and started his autobiography while still enslaved. He obtained his freedom in 1836 and later wrote a book of poems and a play.
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