Gladys May Casely-Hayford (Aqua Laluah), "Poem" (1927)
Poem
By Aquah Lalulah
Why do the bards of black folk
Sing grief brushed over with gladness?
Because God sculptured the soul of the race
In a moment of wistful sadness.
Why do the bards of black folk
Sing joy that follows all sorrow?
God’s tool when He sculptured the soul of the race
Was “The Hope of the Unborn Morrow.”
Published in The Crisis, October 1927