| 1 | Do you fear the slash of the rain? | |
| 2 | Any animal caught singing it was given a flogging on the spot. | |
| 3 | And let him who would lash the offender look unto the spirit of the offended. | |
| 4 | For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. | |
| 5 | It did not need the medium of a flogging to produce that effect on the master. |