James Weldon Johnson Quotes on History
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We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
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O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?
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You sang far better than you knew; the songs That for your listeners' hungry hearts sufficed Still live,-but more than this to you belongs: You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.