Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
THIS LAND IS OURS
This land is ours by right of birth,
This land is ours by right of toil;
We helped to turn its virgin earth, 15
Our sweat is in its fruitful soil.
--James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913) excerpt
