<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">Paul Robeson</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">That time</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">we all heard it,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">cool and clear,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">cutting across the hot grit of the day.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">The major Voice.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">The adult Voice</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">forgoing Rolling River,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">and other symptoms of an old despond.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">Warning, in music-words</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">devout and large,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">that we are each other's</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">harvest:</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">that we are each other's</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">business:</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">we are each other's</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class="">magnitude and bond.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68); min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 15, 68);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gwendolyn Brooks</div></body></html>