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BLt=~CT.~~ POV ~rER : Page 11 -<br />

1967 . . .YEER OF ORGANIZ1iTION<br />

Vlhere are the warriors, the young men?<br />

VVho guards the women's quarters -- the burnt-hair©d<br />

nuomer_'s quarters -_<br />

~ar~3 hears their broken sobbing in the night?<br />

V~Ihere are the warriors, the young men?<br />

1Nho guards the women's quarters?<br />

EARTH<br />

(f or Mrs . Mary Bethune and the<br />

African and AfricanAmerican woman)<br />

(by Roland Snellings, from SO'JLBOOK 2)<br />

To endur© . To remain, like the red earth, strong and fecUndant .<br />

Your conpery,~ chocolate, ebony warm-skin scoured . . .and toughened<br />

by the grid wind .<br />

. -The wrinkles'in your eyes, your smile, your frowning foreheads<br />

arc ~he Stars within your Crown, my women .<br />

Cares come and go ; dreams fade away ; sons are lost<br />

on lonely battlefields . . .s©vexed by Nordic Meataxe .<br />

Men are broken . . .babble . . .lift their bloody genitals<br />

upon the tainted altar <strong>of</strong> the Snow Queen<br />

Her frigid, sterile smile is a tribute to the vengeance <strong>of</strong> her Caesars .<br />

V'~heru, than, is Spartacus, is Attila, is Hannibal?<br />

V+Iho thunders, now, upon those Seven Hills?<br />

They are gone . . .and . . .only you r©main!<br />

You whose j~Jomb has warmed the European hills and made the Pal© Snows tawny .<br />

Pagan Spain, sunny France, Italy and the fabled Grecian Tsles<br />

are drenched by the Sunlight <strong>of</strong> your sm ile :<br />

D~other <strong>of</strong> the V~Forld!<br />

Fecundant, Beating H©art!<br />

Enduring Earth!<br />

O nl~r you r©main .'!<br />

SUPPORT MRS . VINCENT LYNCH<br />

AND F,~MILY

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