<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Paul Robeson</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52); min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">That time</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">we all heard it,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">cool and clear,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">cutting across the hot grit of the day.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The major Voice.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The adult Voice</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">forgoing Rolling River,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and other symptoms of an old despond.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Warning, in music-words</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">devout and large,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">that we are each other's</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">harvest:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">that we are each other's</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">business:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">we are each other's</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">magnitude and bond.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52); min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 10, 52);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gwendolyn Brooks</span></div></div></body></html>