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• 1 2018-10-29T02:28:07-07:00 The Birth of a Nation, by Ethel Trew Dunlap 8 plain 2019-06-01T01:48:02-07:00

  There’s a birth in the earth--

      Not that on the screen;

      A race is travailing--

      It’s emblem is seen.

      The shower--the flower:

      The blossom has burst,

      Sprung, as did Jesus,

      From soil they called cursed.

      It blooms--it perfumes--

      Pressed to Africa’s breast--

      That siren who’s calling

      The captive to rest.

  
  From the July 30, 1921 issue.