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Otto Bohanan, "Paean" (1915)
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Keep me in chains! I defy you! That is a pow’r I deny you! I will sing! I will rise! Up! To the lurid skies- With the smoke of my soul, With my last breath, Tar-feathered, I shall cry: Ethiopia shall not die! And hand in hand with Death, Pass on! I shall not curse you. But singing– My singing! fatefully ringing Till startled and dumb You falter, the sum Of your crime shall reveal– This do I prophesy… O Heart wrung dry! Awake! Startle the world with thy cry: Ethiopia shall not die!
The Crisis. March 1915 Re-typed by Christian Farrior
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