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To Booker T. Washington

Beside our way the streams are dried,
And famine mates us side by side.
Discouraged and reproachful eyes
Seek once again, the frowning skies.
Yet shall there come spite storm and shock
A Moses who shall smite the rock,
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Call manna from the Giver's hand,
And lead us to the promised land!
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Program, Denver Minister's Alliance, Denver, Colorado, January 26, 1900. Copy courtesy of Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection, MSS 659, series 1, box 1, OHS.


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