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Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward. Gwendolyn Brooks

(Among Them Nora and Henry III)

 

Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
“Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.”
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.
Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.

From BLACKS
Third World Press
Copyright © 1991 by Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely
Reprinted with the permission of the author

 
 


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