PagineThe Day-Breakers
by Arna Bontemps · in Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
From Caroling Dusk (1927)
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.
This poem is in the public domain. Source text: Project Gutenberg.