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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Alexander Crummell--DeadPaul Laurence Dunbar - Alexander Crummell--Dead
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Back to the breast of thy mother,   Child of the earth!   E`en her caress can not smother   What thou hast done.   Follow the trail of the westering sun   Over the earth.   Thy light and his were as one--   Sun, in thy worth.   Unto a nation whose sky was as night,   Camest thou, holily, bearing thy light:   And the dawn came,   In it thy fame   Flashed up in a flame.   Back to the breast of thy mother--   To rest.   Long hast thou striven;   Dared where the hills by the lightning of heaven were riven;   Go now, pure shriven.   Who shall come after thee, out of the clay--   Learned one and leader to show us the way?   Who shall rise up when the world gives the test?   Think thou no more of this--   Rest!
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