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Samson
12016-11-14T13:59:43-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1691Samson Screen Capture from Workers Dreadnoughtplain2016-11-14T13:59:43-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
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12016-11-11T13:49:08-05:00Samson3Workers Dreadnought. January 10, 1920plain2016-11-14T14:00:10-05:001920Race, Slavery, Freedom, Liberation, Revolution
Samson, the chosen Nazarite, who ruled The Jews for twenty years and judged their sins, Snared in the web of flesh, by woman fooled, Was captured by the hated Philistines. But God remembered him in his downfall And, in his blindness, gave him back his power, Which nobly used he, at the gaoler’s call, To save his soul in one grand crowning hour O sable Samsons, in white prisons bound, Wounded and blinded, in your hidden strength Put forth your swarthy hands: the pillar found, Strain mightily at them until at length The accursed walls, reared of your blood and tears, Come crashing, sounding freedom in your ears.
–Published in Workers Dreadnought, January 10, 1920. Signed as Claude McKay
