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TO MARY CHURCH TERRELL - LECTURER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: A PIONEER, SHE BLAZED A TRAIL OF LIGHT
Last Line: AND LIFE'S FRUITION IS ITS VITAL DREAM!
Subject(s): TERRELL, MARY CHURCH (1863-1954);

A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light
Through murky shadows, with a lithesome tread
Unto those forums, where Hope's beams are shed:
Straight through the mighty cordon of the night,
Rapt with a vision, soul-born, clear and bright,
Leaving the South of frigid wrong, she sped
Into the North, where hearts glow warm instead,
A people's tragedy to there recite.

Hope's liquid pipings lift their tender lay,
Morning is waking, flushed with rosy gleam,
Night with its shadow winds with yesterday
Adown the world-way as an inky stream,
Seed time and harvest deftly interplay,
And Life's fruition is its vital dream!



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