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When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on?

— Stephen Vincent Benét The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)

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Something begins.
Something is full of change and sparkling stars.
Something is loosed that changes all the world.

A Child is Born (1942)

Rise up! The loves we had were not enough.
Something is loosed to change the shaken world,
And with it we must change!

A Child is Born (1942)

We are the earth his word must sow like wheat
And, if it finds no earth, it cannot grow.

A Child is Born (1942)

The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east.

By the Waters of Babylon (1937)

The time is — time. The place is anywhere.
The voices speak to you across the air
To say that once again a child is born.
A child is born.

A Child is Born (1942)

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