Rare Earth
off there in the fields they were away from everybody. There were no other houses near them.
"If the white man will not accept us," said Benda, "he should stop to consider that our ancestors did not ask to be brought to America to be sold into slavery. The early Colonists should not be held up as paragons of virtue to be gazed at in awe and honor. After all what were their two chief accomplishments? They ruined the Indian and drove him from his own soil, his own home. They dragged the black man from Africa and forced him into thralldom. Noble Colonists. America might well be proud of such accomplishments."
On their farm they found happiness. For there there was quietness and rest. They had each other and the baby. No wonder Linda walked about the fields singing, always singing. Sometimes she carried the boy in her arms.
"Whut's a lullaby?
Don' you know?
Jus' a lull at eve
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