Not a single knee was down, and I wiped a way a tear.
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The Gift Outright
The land was ours before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were England’s, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.
— Robert Frost
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Slightly theatrical, but that little girl has pipes!!!
What a crackup. Just want to hug her!
Great that she did it, and good for her – and she can sing, although it ain’t gonna last long if she keeps doing that.
An absolute travesty that at that age she’s already been convinced that she has to have “soul” to put it across. My little darling, you ain’t black. And that’s a good thing.