Ode to Ethiopia
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"Ode to Ethiopia" is an 1896 poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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[edit] Summary
Dunbar presents ideas of Ethiopia as a mother, shows a pride in the African-American people, encourages hope as well as racial pride. It emphasizes a belief in a brighter future.
[edit] Afro American Symphony
Part of this poem was used as a prologue to the fourth movement of William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American":
- Be proud, my race, in mind and soul;
- Thy name is writ on Glory's scroll
- In characters of fire.
- High 'mid the clouds of Fame's bright sky
- Thy banner's blazoned folds now fly,
- And truth shall lift them higher.
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