正文 The Negro Mother

The Negro Mother

Children, I e back today

To tell you a story of the long dark way

That I had to climb, that I had to know

In order that the race might live and grow.

Look at my face -- dark as the night --

Yet shining like the sun with loves true light.

I am the dark girl who crossed the red sea

Carrying in my body the seed of the free.

I am the woman who worked in the field

Bringing the cotton and the to yield.

I am the one who labored as a slave,

Beaten and mistreated for the work that I gave --

Children sold away from me, Im husband sold, too.

No safety , no love, no respect was I due.

Three hundred years in the deepest South:

But God put a song and a prayer in my mouth .

God put a dream like steel in my soul.

Now, through my children, Im reag the goal.

Now, through my children, young and free,

I realized the blessio me.

I couldhen. I couldnt write.

I had nothing, back there in the night.

Sometimes, the valley was filled with tears,

But I kept trud……(内容加载失败!)

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