Noun
1.
manumission - the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
freeing, liberation, release - the act of liberating someone or something
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“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”
(Richard Bach)
*Photo by Helder Barreiros
If Hands Could Free You, Heart
If hands could free you, heart,
Where would you fly?
Far, beyond every part
Of earth this running sky
Makes desolate? Would you cross
City and hill and sea,
If hands could set you free?
I would not lift the latch;
For I could run
Through fields, pit-valleys, catch
All beauty under the sun--
Still end in loss:
I should find no bent arm, no bed
To rest my head.
Philip Larkin
