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W.E.B. Du Bois, "Unrest" (1920)

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This poem originally appeared in The Crisis in March 1920. 

O God!
Dip down Thy Hands into the flame ways of Thy Heavens;
Splash back the foaming clouds,
Strain out Thy Suns,
And let the stars drip through,
Upon the panting blindness of our ears.

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