Torch-lights and stepping-stones from slavery to self-government; waking up, and inspiring poetry, and orations to solve the race problem .. . statue 111 Hour Of World-War .SoldiersOn Tlie Courthouse Square h\ Goldshoro, N (? jEestial muse in relms of fadeless g^oM; [Xne spacious book of history unfold;Write on its ample pearly pages grand;Johnsons and Roberts brave,heroic most invincible,ai)d bold black men,Who were the first Americans to win,In the world-war the heros medals bright;By vanquishing twenty (Jern ansone black American sentinels bold;Who did in France their po
Torch-lights and stepping-stones from slavery to self-government; waking up, and inspiring poetry, and orations to solve the race problem .. . statue 111 Hour Of World-War .SoldiersOn Tlie Courthouse Square h\ Goldshoro, N (? jEestial muse in relms of fadeless g^oM; [Xne spacious book of history unfold;Write on its ample pearly pages grand;Johnsons and Roberts brave,heroic most invincible,ai)d bold black men,Who were the first Americans to win,In the world-war the heros medals bright;By vanquishing twenty (Jern ansone black American sentinels bold;Who did in France their posts with honor ho Id:When they did these twenty Germans meet;And send them back in ignoble brave Americans,and French,Lay sleeping side by side alorg the 1)(n(h;These two brave sentinels on guard did stand,Against the German army near at Night upon his sable throne did dose;These twenty Germans,creeping on their toes,Stole quickly through the dark,and gloomy wood. To where Ihesrt sentinels on duty stood;Armed with many a deadly grenade,A fierce asault, upon the two they made;Advancing on them from the side and r
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