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Rejoice and shout with laughter
Throw all your burdens down,
If God has been so gracious
As to make you black or brown.
For you are a great nation,
A people of great birth
For where would spring the flowers
If God took away the earth?
Rejoice and shout with laugther
Throw all your burdens down
Yours is a glorious heritage
If you are black, or brown
Throw all your burdens down,
If God has been so gracious
As to make you black or brown.
For you are a great nation,
A people of great birth
For where would spring the flowers
If God took away the earth?
Rejoice and shout with laugther
Throw all your burdens down
Yours is a glorious heritage
If you are black, or brown
Rejoice
Gladys Casely-Hayford.
Awake, thou sleeping heart!
Awake and kiss
The love-lornn brow
Of this ebon lass,
Dear Africa,
Whose virgin charms
Ensnare the love-lit hearts
Of venturing youth
From other lands.
Awake, sweet Africa
Demand thy love,
Thou sleeping heart!
When the all-summer sun
Paints the leafy boughs
With golden rays,
Know then, thou sleeping heart,
Dear Africa stands
Knocking at thy door.
Awake and kiss
The love-lornn brow
Of this ebon lass,
Dear Africa,
Whose virgin charms
Ensnare the love-lit hearts
Of venturing youth
From other lands.
Awake, sweet Africa
Demand thy love,
Thou sleeping heart!
When the all-summer sun
Paints the leafy boughs
With golden rays,
Know then, thou sleeping heart,
Dear Africa stands
Knocking at thy door.
Dear Africa
Michael Dei-Anangs
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John Pepper Clark