Thomas Jefferson said this, more or less, After he read the musings of the clever African Phillis Wheatley, a sensation of both the Colonies And England, a black patriot, though a slave. Whatever a black hand can build, he knew, Could only be guided by a master’s vision, Like this room of the mansion he probably Wrote his opinion in—what black mind could Dream in these proportions? And gather The slope of these Virginia hills so lovingly To his window? God could give her words, But the subtle turn? Like giving a gull A sack of gold. |
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