SIC VITA

by: William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962)

      EART free, hand free,
      Blue above, brown under,
      All the world to me
      Is a place of wonder.
      Sun shine, moon shine,
      Stars, and winds a-blowing,
      All into this heart of mine
      Flowing, flowing, flowing!
       
      Mind free, step free,
      Days to follow after,
      Joys of life sold to me
      For the price of laughter.
      Girl's love, man's love,
      Love of work and duty,
      Just a will of God's to prove
      Beauty, beauty, beauty!

"Sic Vita" is reprinted from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922

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