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Evie had mentioned Frederick
Douglass in her reading

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to the young poets this morning.

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And I thought maybe
I would recite

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Hayden's beautiful sonnet
Frederick Douglass.

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And they'll tell you a
little bit about my work.

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When it is finally
ours, this freedom,

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this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing,

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needful to man as
air, usable as Earth.

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When it belongs at last to
all, when it is truly instinct,

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brain matter, diastole,
systole, reflex action.

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When it is finally one, when
it is more than the gaudy mumbo

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jumbo of politicians.

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This man, this Douglass,
this former slave

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beaten to his knees exiled
visioning a world where none

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is lonely, none hunted, alien.

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This man superb
in love and logic.

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This man shall be remembered.

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Oh, not with statues, rhetoric.

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Not with legends, and
poems, and wreaths of bronze

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alone, but with the lives
grown out of his life.

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The lives fleshing his dream
of the beautiful needful thing.

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