The poem celebrates the strength, resilience, and spirit of the Palestinian people in their homeland despite facing challenges and struggles. It references the mountains, Jerusalem, Gaza's shores, refugee camps, and ancient lands of Palestine, highlighting how the Palestinian people rise up in the face of hardship and their stars (dreams and hopes) light up the skies as they work toward a future of unity, peace, and a vision for their land.
The poem celebrates the strength, resilience, and spirit of the Palestinian people in their homeland despite facing challenges and struggles. It references the mountains, Jerusalem, Gaza's shores, refugee camps, and ancient lands of Palestine, highlighting how the Palestinian people rise up in the face of hardship and their stars (dreams and hopes) light up the skies as they work toward a future of unity, peace, and a vision for their land.
The poem celebrates the strength, resilience, and spirit of the Palestinian people in their homeland despite facing challenges and struggles. It references the mountains, Jerusalem, Gaza's shores, refugee camps, and ancient lands of Palestine, highlighting how the Palestinian people rise up in the face of hardship and their stars (dreams and hopes) light up the skies as they work toward a future of unity, peace, and a vision for their land.
An Ode
Read August 15, 1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three