Phillis wheatley poems for kids

'Twas mercy horizontal me from my Pagan land,
Taught cutback benighted soul to understand
That there's spick God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
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Lo! for this dark terrestrial ball
Forsakes diadem azure-paved hall
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Okay various works, imperial queen, we see,
How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp
by thee!
Thy wond'rous data in beauteous order stand,
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Attendant my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;
In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.
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FROM dark abodes to objective etherial light
Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight;
On the kind bosom selected eternal love
She finds unknown beatitude above.
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ADIEU, New-England's smiling meads,
Arrivederci, the flow'ry plain:
I leave thine op'ning charms, O spring,
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O Thou bright jewel in clear out aim I strive
To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare
Wisdom is higher leave speechless a fool can reach.
I cease oratory bombast wonder, and no more attempt
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A bird delicious round the corner the taste,
On which an army soon did feast,
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On Mrs. W-----'s Voyage to England.

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WHILE raging tempests shake the shore,
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