Unknown To Our Fallen Flyers
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.184 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Printed document Date: no date Pagination: 1 p. ; 26.6 x 20.4 cm. Order a Copy
A copy of the poem "To Our Fallen Flyers" by J. Farley Ragland.
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TO OUR FALLEN FLYERS
By J. Farley Ragland
They are not dead -
Our eagles are not gone !
They need no requiems said,
Nor farewell bugles blown.
They've won their right to fly
Into a calling sky.
They've flown into the sun,
Those heroes, one by one.
Singh and Mosely glide the
beck'ning blue,
Williams, Brooks, and Walker ride
the ether through--
And others of this marching
colored race
Have done their homage to this
honored pace -
But they're not dead -
Their wings shall ever spread :
And 'neath where they shall fly,
Shall hate and jim crow die!
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