First Line: THE WHITE EAGLE SHRIEKED OVER THE SEA AND OVER THE ISLANDS Last Line: AFRICA, BECOME WHITE STEEL, AFRICA, BECOME BLACK HOST %SO THE HOPE OF MAN CAN LIVE Subject(s): NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT);
Poem Sources:
THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, V20#6, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER /91. (1991)
THE COLLECTED POETRY. MELVIN DIXON (TR.) SENGHOR, LEOPOLD SEDAR (1991)