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"Bury Me in a Free Land" is a poem by Frances Harper, an African American abolitionist and poet. Frances Harper (1825-1911) was an African-American poet who was involved in the movement to abolish slavery. Her poem "Bury Me in a Free Land" evokes of the horrors of slavery. :Make me a grave where'er you will, :In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; :Make it among earth's humblest graves, :But not in a land where men are slaves. :I could not rest if around my grave :I heard the steps of a trembling slave; :His shadow above my silent tomb :Would make it a place of fearful gloom. :I could not rest if I heard the tread :Of a coffle gang to the shambles led, :And the mother's shriek of wild despair :Rise like a curse on the trembling air. :I could not sleep if I saw the lash :Drinking her blood at each fearful gash, :And I saw her babes torn from her breast, :Like trembling doves from their parent nest. :I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay :Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey, :And I heard the captive plead in vain :As they bound afresh his galling chain. :If I saw young girls from their mother's arms :Bartered and sold for their youthful charms, :My eye would flash with a mournful flame, :My death-paled cheek grow red with shame. :I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might :Can rob no man of his dearest right; :My rest shall be calm in any grave :Where none can call his brother a slave. :I ask no monument, proud and high, :To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; :All that my yearning spirit craves, :Is bury me not in a land of slaves. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bury Me in a Free Land」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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