Carolina Quotes
Alas! and am I born for this, To wear this slavish chain? Deprived of all created bliss, Through hardship, toil and pain! How long have I in bondage lain, And languished to be free! Alas! and must I still complain-- Deprived 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 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.
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.