Carolina Quotes
Come, melting Pity, from afar, And break this vast enormous bar Between a wretch and thee; Purchase a few short days of time, And bid a vassal soar sublime, On wings of Liberty.
George Moses Horton Carolinian
Source
The Hope of Liberty. Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces (Raleigh: J. Gales & Son, 1829); Documenting the American South, UNC
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- The Hope of Liberty
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- 1829
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“Come, melting Pity, from afar, And break this vast enormous …” George Moses Horton. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-334327FA72. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/334327fa72
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Let me die and not tremble at death, But smile at the close of my day, And then, at the flight of my breath, Like a bird of the morning in May, Go chanting away.
Come Liberty, thou cheerful sound, Roll through my ravished ears! Come, let my grief in joys be drowned, And drive away my fears.
I know her story-telling eye Has more expression than her tongue; And from that heart-extorted sigh, At once the peal of love is rung.