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THE DAY-BREAKERS by ARNA BONTEMPS

Poet Analysis


POEM TEXT:

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.




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