Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOOD-BYE! OFF FOR KANSAS, by JOHN WILLIS MENARD


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GOOD-BYE! OFF FOR KANSAS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-bye ye bloody scenes of long ago
Last Line: I'll sing and give the good lord thanks!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs


Good-bye ye bloody scenes of long ago! --
Good-bye to cotton fields and hounds!
From you, vile sources of my earthly woe,
My freed and leaping spirit bounds!

Though free, my work to me no profit yields,
And for my politics, am mobb'd;
No more thank God! upon these bloody fields
Shall I be of my labor robb'd!

Good-bye Aunt Polly! good-bye Uncle Ned!
I am off, and shall not come back;
This land is cursed; we are in rags, half fed,
Bull-dozed and killed by Yellow Jack!

Good-bye! I've sold my little cane and corn!
And am off for the river's banks;
And when I step on board to-morrow morn,
I'll sing and give the good Lord thanks!





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