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"Ode to Ethiopia" is an 1896 poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, a noted African-American poet who achieved a national reputation in the United States before the end of the nineteenth century.
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Summary
Dunbar presents ideas of Ethiopia as a mother, shows a pride in the African-American people, and encourages hope as well as racial pride. His poem emphasizes a belief in a brighter future ahead for the people of Ethiopia
Afro American Symphony
Part of this poem was used as a prologue to the fourth movement of William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American":
Be proud, my race, in mind and soul;Thy name is writ on Glory's scrollIn characters of fire.High 'mid the clouds of Fame's bright skyThy banner's blazoned folds now fly,And truth shall lift them higher.References
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