To Our Friends

We've kept the faith. Our souls’ high dreams
Untouched by bondage and its rod,
Burn on! and on! and on! It seems
We shall have FRIENDS—while God is God!

Credit

From The Book of American Negro Poetry (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922) edited by James Weldon Johnson. This poem is in the public domain.

Author

Lucian B. Watkins

Lucian Bottow Watkins was born in Chesterfield, Virginia, in 1879 and attended public schools in his birthplace. He later enrolled at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in Petersburg.

Date Published

01/01/1922