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A Rock A River A Tree	A
Hosts to species long since departed	B
Mark the mastodon	C
The dinosaur who left dry tokens	D
Of their sojourn here	E
On our planet floor	F
Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom	G
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages	H
But today the Rock cries out to us clearly forcefully	A
Come you may stand upon my	I
Back and face your distant destiny	A
But seek no haven in my shadow	J
I will give you no hiding place down here	E
You created only a little lower than	K
The angels have crouched too long in	L
The bruising darkness	M
Have lain too long	N
Face down in ignorance	O
Your mouths spelling words	P
Armed for slaughter	Q
The rock cries out today you may stand on me	A
But do not hide your face	R
Across the wall of the world	S
A river sings a beautiful song	N
Come rest here by my side	T
Each of you a bordered country	A
Delicate and strangely made proud	U
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege	V
Your armed struggles for profit	W
Have left collars of waste upon	X
My shore currents of debris upon my breast	Y
Yet today I call you to my riverside	T
If you will study war no more	F
Come clad in peace and I will sing the songs	Z
The Creator gave to me when I	I
And the tree and stone were one	A2
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your brow	B2
And when you yet knew you still knew nothing	C2
The river sings and sings on	X
There is a true yearning to respond to	D2
The singing river and the wise rock	E2
So say the Asian the Hispanic the Jew	D2
The African and Native American the Sioux	D2
The Catholic the Muslim the French the Greek	F2
The Irish the Rabbi the Priest the Sheikh	F2
The Gay the Straight the Preacher	Q
The privileged the homeless the teacher	Q
They hear They all hear	E
The speaking of the tree	A
Today the first and last of every tree	A
Speaks to humankind Come to me here beside the river	Q
Plant yourself beside me here beside the river	Q
Each of you descendant of some passed on	X
Traveller has been paid for	F
You who gave me my first name	G2
You Pawnee Apache and Seneca	H2
You Cherokee Nation who rested with me	A
Then forced on bloody feet	I2
Left me to the employment of other seekers	J2
Desperate for gain starving for gold	K2
You the Turk the Swede the German the Scot	L2
You the Ashanti the Yoruba the Kru	F
Bought sold stolen arriving on a nightmare	F
Praying for a dream	M2
Here root yourselves beside me	A
I am the tree planted by the river	F
Which will not be moved	N2
I the rock I the river I the tree	A
I am yours your passages have been paid	O2
Lift up your faces you have a piercing need	P2
For this bright morning dawning for you	D2
History despite its wrenching pain	Q2
Cannot be unlived and if faced with courage	R2
Need not be lived again	S2
Lift up your eyes upon	X
The day breaking for you	D2
Give birth again	S2
To the dream	M2
Women children men	S2
Take it into the palms of your hands	T2
Mold it into the shape of your most	U2
Private need Sculpt it into	D2
The image of your most public self	V2
Lift up your hearts	W2
Each new hour holds new chances	H
For new beginnings	X2
Do not be wedded forever	F
To fear yoked eternally	A
To brutishness	X2
The horizon leans forward	Y2
Offering you space to place new steps of change	Z2
Here on the pulse of this fine day	A3
You may have the courage	R2
To look up and out upon me	A
The rock the river the tree your country	A
No less to Midas than the mendicant	A3
No less to you now than the mastodon then	S2
Here on the pulse of this new day	A3
You may have the grace to look up and out	A3
And into your sister's eyes	X2
Into your brother's face your country	A
And say simply	A
Very simply	A
With hope	B3
Good morning	C2

Maya Angelou

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