The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey

(43)
The West Indian whites are tricky, too; They have schemes curved like the horse's shoe: There is only one opening for the blackThree other sides are close up to his back; Hence he never gets a chance to look in Whilst staring at the world of mortal sin. Yes, this is the game they play everywhere, Leaving the Negro to gloom and despair.

(44)
And now, white man, can we reason with you, For each race in the world to give it due? Africa for Africans is most right;
Asia for Asiatics is light;
To Europe for the Europeans,
America for the Americans:
This is the doctrine of the goodly Klan, Now fighting for the alien ban.

(45)
Blacks do not hate you because you are white; We believe in giving to all men right;
Some we do keep for ourselves to protect, Knowing it as a virtue to select.
We are willing to be friends of mankind, Pulling all together with none behind,
Growing in sane goodness and fellowship, Choosing but the Almighty to worship.

(46)
Let Justice prevail, at home and abroad; Cease over the weak your burdens to lord; You're but mortal man, like the rest of usOf this happy truth we need make no fuss. All Nature's kindly gifts are justly oursSuns, oceans, trees, to pretty flowersSo we need not doubt the marvelous fact That God has given to each man his tract.

(47)
The common thief now steals a crust of bread, The law comes down upon his hungry head; The haughty land robber steals continents, With men, oil, gold, rubber and all contents. The first you say is a hopeless convic', While the latter escapes the law by trick; That grave, one-sided justice will not doThe poor call for consideration, too.

(48)
The rich white man starts the unholy war, Then from the line of action he keeps far; He pushes to the front sons of the poor, There to do battle, die, suffer galore, As the guns rage, liberty loans they raise, And in glorious tones sing freedom's praise. This is the method to gain them more wealth, Then, after vict'ry they practice great stealth.

(49)
Those who make wars should first go to the front, And of gas, shot and shell bear there the brunt: In first lines of action they are all due, If to their country and people they are true: When this is demanded in right of all,
There will be no more deadly cannon ball: The downtrodden poor whites and blacks should join And prevent rich whites our rights to purloin.

(50)
Weeping mothers, tricked in patriotism, Send their sons to fight for liberalism: Into most far off lands they go with pride, Thinking right and God be on their side: When they get into the bloody trenches, They find of lies they had awful drenches: The people they were all supposed to kill, Like themselves, had gotten of lies their fill.

(51)
In the private club and drawing room,
White schemes are hatched for the nation's doom: Speculators, grafters, bankers-all,
With politicians join to hasten the fall, By stealing rights from other citizens, As if they weren't fit or true denizens: How awful is this daring story
That we tell to men young and hoary.

(52)
Crooked lawyers, friends and politicians, Corrupt the morals of the good nations: Between them and others, fly plots they make, Innocent citizens' money to take;
From banks they find out your real account, Then have you indicted on legal count:
Large fees they charge, to have you surely broke, Then, to prison you go-what a sad joke!

(53)
The white man controls cable and wireless, Connections by ships with force and duress: He keeps black races of the world apart, So to his schemes they may not be smart: "There shall be no Black Star Line Ships," he says, "For that will interfere with our crooked ways: "I'll disrupt their business and all their plans, "So they might not connect with foreign lands."

(54)
Black women are raped by the lordly white, In colonies, the shame ne'er reaching light: In other countries abuses are given,
Shocking to morality and God's Heaven.
Hybrids and mongrels are the open result, Which the whites give us as shameful insult: How can they justify this? None can tell; Yet, crimes of the blacks are rung with a bell.

(55)
White men newspapers subsidize and own, For to keep them on their racial throne: Editors are slaves to fool the public,

ADVERTISEMENT:

(56,)
Capitalists buy up all blank space
To advertise and hold the leading place For to influence public opinion
And o'er Chief-editors show dominion.
The average man is not wise to the scheme, He, the reformer, must now redeem;
This isn't a smooth or very easy job,
For, you, of your honor and name, they'll rob.

(57)
The bankers employ men to shoot and kill, When we interfere with their august will; They take the savings of deaf, dumb and poor, Gamble with it here and on foreign shore: In oil, gold, rum, rubber they speculate, Then bring their foreign troubles upon the State: Friends in Government they control at will; War they make, for others, our sons to kill.

(58)
The many foundations of researches,
And the foreign missions and their churches, Are organized to catch the mild converts Who don't understand the way of perverts. Our wealth when discovered by researchers, In lands of the Native occupiers
Is surveyed and marked to the river's rim Till they dislodge a Premprey or Abd-El-Krim.

(59)
It is not freedom from prison we seek;
It is freedom from the big thieves we meet: All life is now a soulless prison cell, A wild suspense between heaven and hell: Selfish, wicked whites have made it so; To the Author and Finisher we'll go,
Carrying our sad cares and many wrongs
To Him in prayers and holy songs.

(60)
This is the game that is played all around, Which is sure one day to each race rebound: The world is gone mad with the money craze, Leaving the poor man in a gloomy haze:
There must be world reorganization,
To save the masses from exploitation-,
The cry is for greater democracy.
A salvation from man's hypocrisy.

(61)
Out in this heartless, bitter oasis
There's now very little of human bliss; The cold capitalists and money sharks
Have made life unsafe, like ocean barks. The once dear, lovely Garden of Eden
Has become the sphere of men uneven;
The good God created but an equal pair, Now man has robbed others of their share.

(62)
Shall there be freedom of liberal thought? No; the white man has all agencies boughtPress, pulpit, law and every other thingHence o'er public opinion he reigns king. This is indisputable, glaring fact;
You may find it out with a little tact. College tutors and presidents are paid, So that in universities schemes are laid.

(63)
Cleopatra, Empress Josephine,
Were black mongrels like of the Philippine: Mixtures from black and other races they, Yet "true" the white man's history will not say To those who seek the light of pure knowledge In the inquiring world, school or college. Napoleon fell for a Negro woman;
So did the Caesars, and the Great Roman.

(64)
Anthony lost his imperial crown
To escape Cleo's fascinating -frown.
This truth the New Negro knows very well, And to his brothers in darkness he'll tell. No one can imprison the brain of man-
That was never intended in God's plan;
You may persecute, starve, even debaseThat will not kill truth nor virtue efface.

(65)
The white man now enjoys his "Vanity Fair"; He thinks of self and not of others careFratricidal course, that to hell doth leadThis is poison upon which the gentry feed. Blacks should study physics, chemistry, more, While the gold God all such sinners adore; This is no idle prattle talk to you;
It has made the banners red, white and blue.

(66)
Out of the clear of God's Eternity
Shall rise a kingdom of Black Fraternity; There shall be conquests o'er militant forces; For as man proposes, God disposes.
Signs of retribution are on every hand: Be ready, black men, like Gideon's band. They may scoff and mock at you today,
But get you ready for the awful fray.

(67)
In the fair movement of God's Abounding Grace There is a promised hope for the Negro race; In the sublimest truth of prophecy,
God is to raise. them to earthly majesty, Princes shall come out of Egypt so grand, The noble black man's home and Motherland, The Psalmist spoke in holy language clear, As Almighty God's triune will declare.

(68)
In their conceit they see not their ruin; You soldiers of trust, be up and doing! Remember Belshazzar's last joyous feast, And Daniel's vision of the Great Beast! "Weighed in the balances and found wanting" Is the Tekel to which they are pointing. This interpretation of the Prophet
Black men shall never in their dreams forget.

(69)
The resplendent rays of the morning sun Shall kiss the Negro's life again begun; The music of God's rhythmic natural law Shall stir Afric's soul without Divine flaw. The perfume from Nature's rosy hilltops Shall fall on us spiritual dewdrops.
Celestial beings shall know us well,
For, by goodness, in death, with them we'll dwell.

(70)
AND HOW SAD A FINIS!
With battleship, artillery and gun
White men have put all God's creatures to run; Heaven and earth they have often defied., Taking no heed of the rebels that died. God can't be mocked in this daring way, So the evil ones shall sure have their day. "You may rob, you may kill, for great fame," So says the white man, FOR THIS IS HIS GAME.