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THE SONG OF AMERICA.
I doom, I live, I will,
I take, I lie, I kill!
I rend and rear
In deserts drear -
I build and burrow well.
With wrack and rue
I hound and hew
On founding stones in Hell;
My Temples rise
And split the Skies,
My winged wheels do tell
The woven wonders of my hand,
The witch-work of my skill!
I writhe, I rave,
I chain the Slave
I do the deed, I kill!
Now what care I
For God or Lie?
I am the great
I WILL.
Written by W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
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