The Day-Breakers
We are not come to wage a strife
With swords upon this hill.
It is not wise to waste the life
Against a stubborn will.
Yet would we die as some have done:
Beating a way for the rising sun.
Credit
From Caroling Dusk (Harper & Brothers, 1927), edited by Countee Cullen. This poem is in the public domain.
Author
Arna Bontemps
Arna Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in Alexandria, Louisiana,
Date Published
01/01/1927