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O brothers mine to day we stand	B
Where half a century sweeps our ken	C
Since God through Lincoln's ready hand	B
Struck off our bonds and made us men	C
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Just fifty years a winter's day	D
As runs the history of a race	E
Yet as we look back o'er the way	D
How distant seems our starting place	E
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Look farther back Three centuries	F
To where a naked shivering score	G
Snatched from their haunts across the seas	F
Stood wild eyed on Virginia's shore	G
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Far far the way that we have trod	H
From heathen kraals and jungle dens	I
To freedmen freemen sons of God	H
Americans and Citizens	J
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A part of His unknown design	K
We've lived within a mighty age	L
And we have helped to write a line	K
On history's most wondrous page	L
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A few black bondmen strewn along	M
The borders of our eastern coast	N
Now grown a race ten million strong	M
An upward onward marching host	N
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Then let us here erect a stone	O
To mark the place to mark the time	P
A witness to God's mercies shown	O
A pledge to hold this day sublime	P
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And let that stone an altar be	Q
Whereon thanksgivings we may lay	D
Where we in deep humility	Q
For faith and strength renewed may pray	D
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With open hearts ask from above	R
New zeal new courage and new pow'rs	J
That we may grow more worthy of	R
This country and this land of ours	J
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For never let the thought arise	J
That we are here on sufferance bare	S
Outcasts asylumed 'neath these skies	J
And aliens without part or share	S
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This land is ours by right of birth	T
This land is ours by right of toil	U
We helped to turn its virgin earth	T
Our sweat is in its fruitful soil	U
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Where once the tangled forest stood	V
Where flourished once rank weed and thorn	W
Behold the path traced peaceful wood	V
The cotton white the yellow corn	W
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To gain these fruits that have been earned	X
To hold these fields that have been won	Y
Our arms have strained our backs have burned	X
Bent bare beneath a ruthless sun	Y
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That Banner which is now the type	Z
Of victory on field and flood	A2
Remember its first crimson stripe	Z
Was dyed by Attucks' willing blood	A2
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And never yet has come the cry	B2
When that fair flag has been assailed	C2
For men to do for men to die	B2
That have we faltered or have failed	C2
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We've helped to bear it rent and torn	W
Through many a hot breath'd battle breeze	J
Held in our hands it has been borne	W
And planted far across the seas	J
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And never yet O haughty Land	B
Let us at least for this be praised	D2
Has one black treason guided hand	B
Ever against that flag been raised	D2
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Then should we speak but servile words	J
Or shall we hang our heads in shame	E2
Stand back of new come foreign hordes	J
And fear our heritage to claim	E2
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No stand erect and without fear	F2
And for our foes let this suffice	J
We've bought a rightful sonship here	G2
And we have more than paid the price	J
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And yet my brothers well I know	H2
The tethered feet the pinioned wings	J
The spirit bowed beneath the blow	H2
The heart grown faint from wounds and stings	J
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The staggering force of brutish might	I2
That strikes and leaves us stunned and daezd	I2
The long vain waiting through the night	I2
To hear some voice for justice raised	I2
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Full well I know the hour when hope	J2
Sinks dead and 'round us everywhere	S
Hangs stifling darkness and we grope	J2
With hands uplifted in despair	S
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Courage Look out beyond and see	J
The far horizon's beckoning span	K2
Faith in your God known destiny	J
We are a part of some great plan	K2
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Because the tongues of Garrison	Y
And Phillips now are cold in death	L2
Think you their work can be undone	Y
Or quenched the fires lit by their breath	L2
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Think you that John Brown's spirit stops	J
That Lovejoy was but idly slain	M2
Or do you think those precious drops	J
From Lincoln's heart were shed in vain	M2
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That for which millions prayed and sighed	I2
That for which tens of thousands fought	I2
For which so many freely died	I2
God cannot let it come to naught	I2

James Weldon Johnson

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