To America

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Title:     To America
Author: James Weldon Johnson [More Titles by Johnson]

How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed forward on a star?
Or gazing empty at despair?

Rising or falling? Men or things?
With dragging pace or footsteps fleet?
Strong, willing sinews in your wings?
Or tightening chains about your feet?

[The end]
James Weldon Johnson's poem: To America

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