Today ends the month long celebration of Black History Month. What better way to end this month's celebration than to share a portion of the lyric's from James Weldon Johnson's song, Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith the dark past has
taught us
Sing a song full of hope that the present has
brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been
watered ...
James Weldon Johnson had originally written this as a poem. It was later set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson. James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, attorney, diplomat , civil rights activist, and songwriter.
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