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Langston Hughes, "Youth" (1924)

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 We have tomorrow
   Bright before us
   Like a flame.

   Yesterday, a night-gone thing
   A sun-down name.

   And dawn today
   Broad arch above the road we came.

   We march!

Published in The Crisis, August 1924

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