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Comrade Langston Hughes
1938
To be read by a Worker with, for background, the rhythmic waves of rising and re-rising Mass Voices, multiplying like the roar of the sea.
WORKER: The first of May;
When the flowers break through the earth;
When the sap rises in the trees,
When the birds come back from the South.
Workers, be like the flowers;
10 VOICES: Bloom in the strength of your unknown power;
20 VOICES: Grow out of the passive earth,
40 VOICES: Grow strong with UNION,
All hands together,—
To beautify this hour, this spring,
And all the springs to come,
50 VOICES: Forever for the workers!
WORKER: Workers!
10 VOICES: Be like the sap, rising in the trees,
20 VOICES: Strengthening each branch,
40 VOICES: No part neglected,—
50 VOICES: Reaching all the world.
WORKER: All workers:
10 VOICES: White workers,
10 OTHERS: Black workers,
10 OTHERS: Yellow workers,
10 OTHERS: Workers in the islands of the sea,—
50 VOICES: Life is everywhere for you,
WORKER: When the sap of your own strength rises,
50 VOICES: Life is everywhere.
10 VOICES: May Day!
20 VOICES: May Day!
40 VOICES: May Day!
50 VOICES: When the earth is new.
WORKER: Proletarians of the world:
20 VOICES: Arise,
40 VOICES: Grow strong,
60 VOICES: Take Power,
80 VOICES: Till the forces of the earth are yours
100 VOICES: From this hour.
1938
To be read by a Worker with, for background, the rhythmic waves of rising and re-rising Mass Voices, multiplying like the roar of the sea.
WORKER: The first of May;
When the flowers break through the earth;
When the sap rises in the trees,
When the birds come back from the South.
Workers, be like the flowers;
10 VOICES: Bloom in the strength of your unknown power;
20 VOICES: Grow out of the passive earth,
40 VOICES: Grow strong with UNION,
All hands together,—
To beautify this hour, this spring,
And all the springs to come,
50 VOICES: Forever for the workers!
WORKER: Workers!
10 VOICES: Be like the sap, rising in the trees,
20 VOICES: Strengthening each branch,
40 VOICES: No part neglected,—
50 VOICES: Reaching all the world.
WORKER: All workers:
10 VOICES: White workers,
10 OTHERS: Black workers,
10 OTHERS: Yellow workers,
10 OTHERS: Workers in the islands of the sea,—
50 VOICES: Life is everywhere for you,
WORKER: When the sap of your own strength rises,
50 VOICES: Life is everywhere.
10 VOICES: May Day!
20 VOICES: May Day!
40 VOICES: May Day!
50 VOICES: When the earth is new.
WORKER: Proletarians of the world:
20 VOICES: Arise,
40 VOICES: Grow strong,
60 VOICES: Take Power,
80 VOICES: Till the forces of the earth are yours
100 VOICES: From this hour.
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