The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey

(25)
We shall always be our brother's keeper, Is the injunction of the Redeemer;
Love and tolerance we must ever show,
If in Grace Divine we would truly grow; This is the way clear to God's great kingdomNot by the death-traps of Argonne or Somme, When the terrible white man learns this much, He will save even the African Dutch.

(26)
South Africa has a grave problem now
In reducing the Negro to the plow;
White men are to live in their lazy case While the patience of the goodly natives tease; They make new laws to have Africa white Precipitating righteous and ready fight: Around the world they speak of being so just, Yet, in fact, no lone white man can you trust.

(27)
In Australia the same they have done,
And so, wherever man's confidence won:
This they call the religion of the Christ, And upon their willing slave try to foist. Only a part of the world can you fool,
And easily reduce to your foot-stool;
The other one-half is always awake,
And from it you cannot liberty take.

(28)
"And now valiant Black men of the west
Must ably rise to lead and save the rest": This is the ringing call Africa sounds, As throughout the Godly world it resounds; Clansmen! black, educated, virile and true! Let us prove too that we are loyal blue. We must win in the blessed fight of love, Trusting on the Maker of men above.

(29)
The Christian world is yet to be saved! Man, since the risen Christ has not behaved! Wanton, reckless, wicked, he still remains, Causing grief, sorrow, tears and human pains! Can we show the Godly light to anyone
Seeking for earnest truth while marching on? If so, friend, let us tell you now and here, For love, freedom, justice let's all prepare!

(30)
God in His Glorious Might is coming,
Wonderful signs He is ever showing,
Unrest, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and storms Are but revelations of Heavenly Forms:
The proud white scientist thinks he is wise But the Black man's God comes in true disguise, God is sure in the rumbling earthquake, When He is ready, the whole world will shake.

(31)
The Armageddon is gathering now;
The sign is on every oppressed man's brow: The whites who think they are ever so smart Do not know other men can play their part: When the opportune time is almost here
Black, Yellow and Brown will be everywhere, In union of cause they'll stand together And storms of the bully boldly weather.

(32)
Their gases and shots, and their rays of death, Shall only be child's play-a dream of Seth, For out of the clear, sleeping minds of ages, Wonders shall be written on history's pages: Our buried arts and sciences then shall rise, To show how for centuries we were wise: Silent tongues we kept, by God's true command, Until of us, action, He did demand.

(33)
Under the canopy of Nature's law

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(34)
Like around the high walls of Jericho,
March we, as Rio speeds through Mexico: Trumpets loud will the Guiding Angels blow. As scatter the enemy to-and-fro:
Heaven will have given us a battle cry: "Oh Brave Soldiers you shall never die": Rally to the command of Heaven's King,
As Cherubim to Him your tidings bring.
(35)
See the deadly clash of arms! Watch! They fall! There is stillness!-It is the funeral pall! A sad requiem now is to be sung!
Not by Angels. but in their human tongue! The cruel masters of yesterday are done! From the fields of battle they have run! A brand new world of justice is to be!
"You shall be a true brother unto me!"

(36)
This is a forecast of God's wrath:
White man, will you turn from the evil path? There is still hope for you, among the good: If you will seek the bigger-brotherhood: Stop your tricks, frauds, lying and stealing, And settle down to fair and square dealing; If not, prepare yourself for gloomy hell, As God announces the sorrowing knell.

(37)
Your lies, to us called diplomacy,
Are known by us, a brazen phantasy;
You imprison men for crimes not so great, While on your silly wisdom you do prate. The masses are soberly watching you;
They know that you are false and so untrue. The laborers of your race you oppress,
As well as black and other men you distress.

(38)
If you were wise you'd read between the lines Of feudal isms and others of old times. Men have fought against ugly royal gods, Burying them 'neath European sods.
Such to heartless masters the people do, From Syracuse to bloody Waterloo;
Wonderful lessons for any sober man,
Who worships not idols or the god Pan.

(39)
In the vicious order of things today,
The poor, suffering black man has no say; The plot is set for one 'gainst the other, With organization they mustn't bother.
"If one should show his head as a leader, Whom we cannot use, the rest to pilfer, We shall discredit him before his own,
And make of him a notorious clown."

(40)
"In Africa we have plans to match him,
While the native Chiefs of their lands we trim; The Blacks schooled in England are too smart, On the I BETTER THAN YOU scheme we'll start, And have them thinking away from the rest; This philosophy for them is best-
Easier then we can rob the good lands
And make ourselves rich without soiled hands."

(41)
"We will so keep from them the' NEGRO WORLD' That no news they'll have of a flag unfurled; Should they smuggle copies in, and we fail, We will send the sly agents all to jail." This is the white man's plan across the sea. Isn't this wily and vicious as can be?
In other lands they have things arranged Differently, yet they have never changed.

(42)
In America they have Colored to tell
What they know of the rest, whose rights they sell; The Blacks they do try to keep always down, But in time they will reap what they have sown. No Negro's good life is safe in the STATES If he tries to be honest with his mates; In politics he must sell at the polls,
To suit the white man in his many roles.