<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">BURY ME IN A FREE LAND</span></b><div>Author unknown</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Make me a grave where'er you will,<br>In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;<br>Make it among earth's humblest graves,<br>But not in a land where men are slaves.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I could not rest if around my grave<br>I heard the steps of a trembling slave;<br>His shadow above my silent tomb<br>Would make it a place of fearful gloom.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I could not rest if I heard the tread<br>Of a coffle gang to the shambles led,<br>And the mother's shriek of wild despair<br>Rise like a curse on the trembling air.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I could not sleep if I saw the lash<br>Drinking her blood at each fearful gash,<br>And I saw her babes torn from her breast,<br>Like trembling doves from their parent nest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay<br>Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,<br>And I heard the captive plead in vain<br>As they bound afresh his galling chain.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">If I saw young girls from their mother's arms<br>Bartered and sold for their youthful charms,<br>My eye would flash with a mournful flame,<br>My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might<br>Can rob no man of his dearest right;<br>My rest shall be calm in any grave<br>Where none can call his brother a slave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I ask no monument, proud and high,<br>To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;<br>All that my yearning spirit craves,<br>Is bury me not in a land of slaves.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>