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Langston Hughes

There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heart-​strings freedom sings
All day everyday.

There are words like Liberty
That almost make me cry.
If you had known what I knew
You would know why.

Langston Hughes, from The Panther & the Lash (1967).

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