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... tears sprang to her eyes , and in another moment she was sobbing con- vulsively . This was too much for Mr. Durham . He was a Southern gentleman . A lady in tears melted him as snow melts beneath the warm Alabama sun . " My poor girl ...
... tears sprang to her eyes , and in another moment she was sobbing con- vulsively . This was too much for Mr. Durham . He was a Southern gentleman . A lady in tears melted him as snow melts beneath the warm Alabama sun . " My poor girl ...
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... tear came to his eye . He remembered Rose Atkinson's words : " You are not Christ's representative in Dothan in the spirit you show to the unfortunate African at your ' door . " He looked up helplessly at last and heaven never heard 30 ...
... tear came to his eye . He remembered Rose Atkinson's words : " You are not Christ's representative in Dothan in the spirit you show to the unfortunate African at your ' door . " He looked up helplessly at last and heaven never heard 30 ...
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... Tears came into his eyes as he said : " I'se glad to see you , Massa . De good Lawd will sho ' bless you . " " That's all right , Uncle , " rejoined Jefferson . " You would have helped me if I had been in the ditch . " " I'se sho ...
... Tears came into his eyes as he said : " I'se glad to see you , Massa . De good Lawd will sho ' bless you . " " That's all right , Uncle , " rejoined Jefferson . " You would have helped me if I had been in the ditch . " " I'se sho ...
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... Tears came to the eyes of the black man as he spoke these pathetic lines in that poem : " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave- By Nature's law designed- Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not , why am I subject to ...
... Tears came to the eyes of the black man as he spoke these pathetic lines in that poem : " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave- By Nature's law designed- Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not , why am I subject to ...
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... Tears came to the old black man's eyes . Massa Washington , " he replied brokenly , " I'se only a poor ole ignorant man , but if Nafti can eber help you to make better men and better women for de colored race I'se will die happy ...
... Tears came to the old black man's eyes . Massa Washington , " he replied brokenly , " I'se only a poor ole ignorant man , but if Nafti can eber help you to make better men and better women for de colored race I'se will die happy ...
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Page 303 - For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you.
Page 290 - O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
Page 104 - BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forhead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; — Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
Page 252 - To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 162 - What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops. And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Page 252 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 97 - ... God has laid at the doors of the South, you shall have at all times the patient, sympathetic help of my race ; only let this be constantly in mind, that, while from representations in these buildings of the product of field, of forest, of mine, of factory, letters, and art, much good will come, yet far above and beyond material benefits will be that higher good, that, let us pray God, will come, in a blotting out of sectional differences and racial animosities and suspicions, in a determination...
Page 70 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 128 - Lord : my goodness extendeth not to thee ; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Page 47 - E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn...