Earl Bigelow Brown, "A Bridge" (1928)
(To the Utica Jubilee Singers)
By Eart BiceLow Brown
You build a slender shining bridge,
Mystically strong,
Across the cleft of sorrows; it’s
A silver bridge of song.
It spans the space of memories.
It meets the throne of grace,—
It arches like a magic road
Above the rift of race.
Published in Opportunity, May 1928