I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.
Source: Slavery.
-- George Moses Horton, ( c. 1800-1880), US poet; He sold love poems to students in an effort to buy his freedom, though he gained his liberty only with abolition; wrote Naked Genius, 1865.