<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477771" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not to the midnight of the gloomy past,<br>Do we revert to-day; we look upon<br>The golden present and the future vast<br>Whose vistas show us visions of the dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor shall the sorrows of departed years<br>The sweetness of our tranquil souls annoy,<br>The sunshine of our hopes dispels the tears,<br>And clears our eyes to see this later joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not ever in the years that God hath given<br>Have we gone friendless down the thorny way,<br>Always the clouds of pregnant black were riven<br>By flashes from His own eternal day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The women of a race should be its pride;<br>We glory in the strength our mothers had,<br>We glory that this strength was not denied<br>To labor bravely, nobly, and be glad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God give to these within this temple here,<br>Clear vision of the dignity of toil,<br>That virtue in them may its blossoms rear<br>Unspotted, fragrant, from the lowly soil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God bless the givers for their noble deed,<br>Shine on them with the mercy of Thy face,<br>Who come with open hearts to help and speed<br>The striving women of a struggling race.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477771" data-title="On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901. Not to the midnight of the gloomy past, Do we revert to-day; we look upon The golden present and the future vast Whose vistas show us visions of the dawn. Nor shall the sorrows of departed years The sweetness of o..."></div> </div> </div>

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