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Let America Be America Again
Let America Be America Again
poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again
By Langston Hughes
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Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
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In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
The free?
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And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
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Langston Hughes, "Let America be America Again" from The Collected Poems of
Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1995 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of
Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
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