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Strong black men
> They dragged you from homeland,
> They chained you in coffles,
> They huddled you in spoon-fashion in filthy hatches,
>
> They sold you to give a few gentlemen ease.
> They broke you in like oxen,
> They scourged you,
> They branded you,
> They branded you,
> They made your women breeders,
> They swelled you numbers with bastards,
> They taught you the religion they disgraced.
> They point with pride to the roads you built for
> them,
> They ride in confort over the rails you laid for
> them.
> They put hammers in your hands
> and said-drive so much before sundown.
> They cooped you in their kitchen,
> They penned you in their factories,
> They gave you the jobs that they were too good for,
> They tried to guarantee happiness to themselves by
> hey tried to guarantee happiness to themselves by
> shunting dirt and misery to you.
> you sang me an'muh baby gonna shine, shine
> me an'muh baby gonna shine.
> The STRONG MEN keep a-comin' on
> The STRONG MEN git STRONGER.........
> They bought of some of your leaders you stumbled,
> as blind men will.......
> They coaxed you , unwontedly soft voiced.......
> you followed a way.
> Then laughed as usual.
> They heard the laugh and wondered;
> Uncomfortable;
> Unadmitting a deeper terror..... The STRONG MEN keep
> a-comin' on gittin STRONGER.......
> what from the slums
> where they have hemmed you,
> what, from the tiny huts
> They could not keep you from-
> What reaches them
> Making them ill at ease, fearful?
> Today they shout prohibition at you
> "thou shalt not this"
> "thou shalt not that"
> "reserved for whites only"
> You laugh.
>
> One thing they cannot prohibit_ The STRONG MEN
> coming on The STRONG MEN gitting' STRONGER. STRONG
> MEN........ STRONGER......
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> By: Sterling Brown
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STILL HERE, BY LANGSTON HUGHES
http://www.michaelfowlin.com/poemtrial.htm
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Strong black men
> They dragged you from homeland,
> They chained you in coffles,
> They huddled you in spoon-fashion in filthy hatches,
>
> They sold you to give a few gentlemen ease.
> They broke you in like oxen,
> They scourged you,
> They branded you,
> They branded you,
> They made your women breeders,
> They swelled you numbers with bastards,
> They taught you the religion they disgraced.
> They point with pride to the roads you built for
> them,
> They ride in confort over the rails you laid for
> them.
> They put hammers in your hands
> and said-drive so much before sundown.
> They cooped you in their kitchen,
> They penned you in their factories,
> They gave you the jobs that they were too good for,
> They tried to guarantee happiness to themselves by
> hey tried to guarantee happiness to themselves by
> shunting dirt and misery to you.
> you sang me an'muh baby gonna shine, shine
> me an'muh baby gonna shine.
> The STRONG MEN keep a-comin' on
> The STRONG MEN git STRONGER.........
> They bought of some of your leaders you stumbled,
> as blind men will.......
> They coaxed you , unwontedly soft voiced.......
> you followed a way.
> Then laughed as usual.
> They heard the laugh and wondered;
> Uncomfortable;
> Unadmitting a deeper terror..... The STRONG MEN keep
> a-comin' on gittin STRONGER.......
> what from the slums
> where they have hemmed you,
> what, from the tiny huts
> They could not keep you from-
> What reaches them
> Making them ill at ease, fearful?
> Today they shout prohibition at you
> "thou shalt not this"
> "thou shalt not that"
> "reserved for whites only"
> You laugh.
>
> One thing they cannot prohibit_ The STRONG MEN
> coming on The STRONG MEN gitting' STRONGER. STRONG
> MEN........ STRONGER......
>
> By: Sterling Brown
>
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STILL HERE, BY LANGSTON HUGHES
http://www.michaelfowlin.com/poemtrial.htm
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