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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Happy 4th of July! O, let America be America again— from Let America Be America Again (1938)





O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—
Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

— from Let America Be America Again (1938)

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