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SONG POWER by JACK GREENBERG

First Line: COME, JOIN US COMRADES, LET US SING TONIGHT
Last Line: SO LET US SING THAT NIGHT AND STORM MAY FAIL.
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS; SONNET (AS LITERARY FORM); SONGS;

Come, join us comrades, let us sing tonight,
Another day has past, and nights though long
Like all things earthly, must resign to flight,
And to the dark's departure goes our song.
Every tomorrow brings a newer turn,
A better moment than the past has known,
And from our song the younger ones will learn
Of fields in which the yester deeds were sown.

This night is heavy and the clouds are thick;
But wind and storm cannot destroy the stars,
Nor needs the day depend on oily wick
To point the road across impending bars.
True songs have strength to conquer dark and gale,
So let us sing that night and storm may fail.



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