<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358140" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Exhortation: Summer 1919</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the pregnant universe rumbles life's terrific thunder, <br>And Earth's bowels quake with terror; strange and terrible storms break, <br>Lightning-torches flame the heavens, kindling souls of men, thereunder: <br>Africa! long ages sleeping, O my motherland, awake! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the East the clouds glow crimson with the new dawn that is breaking, <br>And its golden glory fills the western skies. <br>O my brothers and my sisters, wake! arise! <br>For the new birth rends the old earth and the very dead are waking, <br>Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing off the grave's disguise, <br>And the foolish, even children, are made wise; <br>For the big earth groans in travail for the strong, new world in making-- <br>O my brothers, dreaming for dim centuries, <br>Wake from sleeping; to the East turn, turn your eyes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the night is sweet for sleeping, but the shining day's for working; <br>Sons of the seductive night, for your children's children's sake, <br>From the deep primeval forests where the crouching leopard's lurking, <br>Lift your heavy-lidded eyes, Ethiopia! awake! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the East the clouds glow crimson with the new dawn that is breaking, <br>And its golden glory fills the western skies. <br>O my brothers and my sisters, wake! arise! <br>For the new birth rends the old earth and the very dead are waking, <br>Ghosts have turned flesh, throwing off the grave's disguise, <br>And the foolish, even children, are made wise; <br>For the big earth groans in travail for the strong, new world in making-- <br>O my brothers, dreaming for long centuries, <br>Wake from sleeping; to the East turn, turn your eyes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claude+McKay">Claude McKay</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358140" data-title="Exhortation: Summer 1919 de Claude McKay" data-description="Through the pregnant universe rumbles life's terrific thunder, And Earth's bowels quake with terror; strange and terrible storms break, Lightning-torches flame the heavens, kindling souls of men, thereunder: Africa! long ages sleeping, O my mot..."></div> </div> </div>

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