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Have not seers seen in Heaven's halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form stark amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin, where all along bow bitter forms of endless dead?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois reflects on the spiritual and moral decay witnessed in society.
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