ACT-SO 2021 Book Sample05112021 - Flipbook - Page 21
come to the place on witch our fathers sighed?
we have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
where the white gleam of our star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
thou who has brought us thus far on the way; thou who has by thy
might,
led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray
lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee,
least our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee,
shadowed beneath the hand,
may we forever stand, true to our God,
True to our native land.
NAACP DeKalb ACT-SO Awards 2021
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