• Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

    George Moses Horton: Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of liberty!
    George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.56, Univ of North Carolina Press