Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among Them Nora and Henry III)

Gwendolyn Brooks

doi:10.1353/ect.2016.0068

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Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among Them Nora and Henry III)
Gwendolyn Brooks
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University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Volume 12, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2016 (Issue 22)
p. 7
10.1353/ect.2016.0068
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Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among Them Nora and Henry III)
Gwendolyn Brooks

Say to them,say to the down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmony-hushers,“Even if you are not ready for dayit cannot always be night.”You will be right.For that is the hard home-run.

Live not for battles won.Live not for the-end-of-the-song.Live in the along. [End Page 7]

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