Caroling Dusk/The Day-breakers

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Caroling Dusk (1927)
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The Day-breakers by Arna Bontemps

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THE DAY-BREAKERS

We are not come to wage a strife With swords upon this hill.It is not wise to waste the life Against a stubborn will.Yet would we die as some have done:Beating a way for the rising sun.