THE STAR OF LIBERIA
Oh! my mighty love, for my people, friends,
But there’s a certain class of us that our minds doesn’t blend,
Though we’ve fought many a battle and it seems we’ve always won,
But we’ll be greater when the “Star of Liberia” shines like the sun.
I have sat and dreamed and to come there’s a brighter day,
But if our race pride’s weak, and we have no love, just when I’m afraid to say.
You pattern after the white man in every way but one,
And that’s why the “Star of Liberia” cannot shine like the sun.
We must learn to pull together, because animals know that much,
For when we seesaw back and forth into our future it puts a clutch.
This must be stopped or our defeat will be like the Huns,
And it keeps the “Star of Liberia” from shining like the sun.
I see a ship on the ocean at a distance of a thousand miles
And it’s flying a flag of a people that will be prominent afterwhile.
There’s a tiny bit of a star that’s causing that flag to fly,
But with a close observation it can be seen with the natural eye.
We must love this flag above all things we’ve done,
For it holds the “Star of Liberia” that’s going to shine like the sun.
This ship has good omen and a cloudy day there’s none,
Then why keep the “Star of Liberia” from shining like the sun.
We know she’s cruised the ocean for fifty years or more,
But as soon as we pull together she will land on the American shores.
DEFENSE
Colored men stop your marriages
To women of the other race,
Quit breaking the hearts of our goodly women
And bringing them a shameful face,
Why are some of us thoughtless
Upon things along this line,
Why when you go out of this race to marry
You leave women just as fine.
Now colored men I’m pleading this case
For our worthy colored girls
And trying to stop this awful horror
That’s passing through this world.
Where do you find other women
That will be yoked along you’re side,
To help you sail life’s rough ocean,
No matter how rigid the tide.
They go with you through thick and thin,
Down on their knees upon kitchen floors,
And in wash tubs they tirelessly bend
Just to help climb the ladder of fame.
Then could you discard an honest soul
That another race may honor your name?
Now God in heaven wrote
This humble oration,
That we may form a grand
And noble nation.
LOVE’S PRECAUTION
Trespass not
Upon two hearts that love,
Your penalty’s imposed,
By the Savior above.
This tiny little link
That connects two hearts,
With the watchword,
That no one should tear apart.
Think some day
It may be you,
Then read this poem
’Twill tell more true.