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Mis à jour: 26 juillet 2025

Methinks a cherub bending from the skies Observes the question and serene replies, «In heav'n's high palaces your babe appears: Prepare to meet him, and dismiss your tears». Shall not th' intelligence your grief restrain, And turn the mournful to the chearful strain? Cease your complaints, suspend each rising sigh, Cease to accuse the Ruler of the sky.

Henri Grégoire - De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature

Parents, no more indulge the falling tear: Let Faith to heav'n's refulgent domes repair, There see your infant like a seraph glow: What charms celestial in his numbers flow Melodious, while the soul-enchanting strain Dwells on his tongue, and fills th' etherial plain? Enough forever cease your murm'ring breath;

Henri Grégoire - De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature