The Psychology of Slaves

There are poets, there are scholars, and there are sages— A nation’s days of slavery are not uneventful!

But every one of them—poor creatures!—has a single goal, Though each is unique in the ideas he expounds

‘Better teach the lion to take flight like a deer, So that the legend of the lion’s courage is forgotten!’

They seek to make the slaves feel at ease with their slavery, Pretending to ‘expound and reason things out’.