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4    <name>
5      <firstname>Langston</firstname>
6      <lastname>Hughes</lastname>
7    </name>
8    <life-events>
9      <date ty="birth" circa="false" suffix="ad">1902</date>
10      <date ty="death" circa="false" suffix="ad">1967</date>
11      <text-value>(1902–67)</text-value>
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13    <biography>y</biography>
14  </person>
15</author>
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3  <fulltext>y</fulltext>
4  <subjects>
5    <subject id="3051">
6      <subject-name>Oppression</subject-name>
7    </subject>
8    <subject id="3515">
9      <subject-name>Revolution and Revolutionaries</subject-name>
10    </subject>
11    <subject id="3377">
12      <subject-name>Social Protest</subject-name>
13    </subject>
14    <subject id="5854">
15      <subject-name>Proletariat</subject-name>
16    </subject>
17    <subject id="2337">
18      <subject-name>Labor and Laborers</subject-name>
19    </subject>
20    <subject id="724">
21      <subject-name>Capitalism</subject-name>
22    </subject>
23    <subject id="5527">
24      <subject-name>Work and Workers</subject-name>
25    </subject>
26  </subjects>
27  <sources>
28    <source id="7146">
29      <source-title>The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes</source-title>
30    </source>
31    <source id="7236">
32      <source-title>The Collected Works of Langston Hughes; Vol. 1, The Poems: 1921–1940</source-title>
33    </source>
34  </sources>
35  (: Variant sources/title :)
36  <sources-variant-block />
37  (:This was specifically set to the root author; change to the selection 2008-03-12 bug 0310 :)
38  <authors>
39    <author>
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41        <name>
42          <firstname>Langston</firstname>
43          <lastname>Hughes</lastname>
44        </name>
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46          <date ty="birth" circa="false" suffix="ad">1902</date>
47          <date ty="death" circa="false" suffix="ad">1967</date>
48          <text-value>(1902–67)</text-value>
49        </life-events>
50        <biography>y</biography>
51      </person>
52    </author>
53  </authors>
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55    <citation-form id="00000096547P01" poemid="00000096547" selectionid="00000096547">
56      <title id="00000096547P01">Wait</title>
57      <firstline>I am the Silent One</firstline>
58      <lastline>
59        <sc>SUGAR BEET WORKERS INDIAN MASSES BONUS MARCHERS FORD STRIKERS HAITI</sc>
60      </lastline>
61    </citation-form>
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65          <sc>pickers</sc>
66        </line>
67        <line n="2">
68          <sc>chapei</sc>
69        </line>
70        <line n="3">
71          <sc>ford</sc>
72        </line>
73        <line n="4">
74          <sc>strikers</sc>
75        </line>
76        <line n="5">
77          <sc>alabama</sc>
78        </line>
79        <line n="6">
80          <sc>negroes</sc>
81        </line>
82        <line n="7">
83          <sc>cuba</sc>
84        </line>
85        <line n="8">
86          <sc>unemployed</sc>
87        </line>
88        <line n="9">
89          <sc>millions</sc>
90        </line>
91        <line n="10">
92          <sc>meerut</sc>
93        </line>
94        <line n="11">
95          <sc>child</sc>
96        </line>
97        <line n="12">
98          <sc>labor</sc>
99        </line>
100        <line n="13">
101          <sc>scottsboro</sc>
102        </line>
103        <line n="14">
104          <sc>german</sc>
105        </line>
106        <line n="15">
107          <sc>communists</sc>
108        </line>
109        <line n="16">
110          <sc>poor</sc>
111        </line>
112        <line n="17">
113          <sc>farmers</sc>
114        </line>
115        <line n="18">
116          <sc>black</sc>
117        </line>
118        <line n="19">
119          <sc>africa</sc>
120        </line>
121        <line n="20">
122          <sc>grape</sc>
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124        <line n="21">
125          <sc>pickers</sc>
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127        <line n="22">
128          <sc>japanese</sc>
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130        <line n="23">
131          <sc>conscripts</sc>
132        </line>
133        <line n="24">
134          <sc>johannesburg</sc>
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136        <line n="25">
137          <sc>miners</sc>
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141        <line n="26">I am the Silent One,</line>
142        <line n="27">Saying nothing,</line>
143        <line n="28">Knowing no words to write,</line>
144        <line n="29">Feeling only the bullets</line>
145        <line n="30">And the hunger</line>
146        <line n="31">And the stench of gas</line>
147        <line n="32">Dying.</line>
148        <line n="33">And nobody knows my name</line>
149        <line n="34">But someday,</line>
150        <line n="35">I shall raise my hand</line>
151        <line n="36">And break the heads of you</line>
152        <line n="37">Who starve me.</line>
153        <line n="38">I shall raise my hand</line>
154        <line n="39">And smash the spines of you</line>
155        <line n="40">Who shoot me.</line>
156      </stanza>
157      <stanza>
158        <line n="41">I shall take your guns</line>
159        <line n="42">And turn them on you.</line>
160      </stanza>
161      <stanza>
162        <line n="43">Starting with the bankers and the bosses</line>
163        <line n="44">Traders and missionaries</line>
164        <line n="45">Who pay the militarists</line>
165        <line n="46">Who pay the soldiers</line>
166        <line n="47">Who back the police</line>
167        <line n="48">Who kill me—</line>
168        <line n="49">And break my strikes</line>
169        <line n="50">And break my rising—</line>
170        <line n="51">I, silently,</line>
171        <line n="52">And without a single learned word</line>
172        <line n="53">Shall begin the slaughter</line>
173        <line n="54">That will end my hunger</line>
174        <line n="55">And your bullets</line>
175        <line n="56">And the gas of capitalism</line>
176        <line n="57">And make the world</line>
177        <line n="58">My own.</line>
178        <line n="59">When that is done,</line>
179        <line n="60">I shall find words to speak</line>
180        <line n="61">Wait!</line>
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184          <sc>meerut</sc>
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186        <line n="63">
187          <sc>haiti</sc>
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190          <sc>korea</sc>
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192        <line n="65">
193          <sc>child</sc>
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196          <sc>labor</sc>
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198        <line n="67">
199          <sc>sugar</sc>
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202          <sc>haiti</sc>
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204        <line n="69">
205          <sc>bonus</sc>
206        </line>
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208          <sc>korea</sc>
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211          <sc>meerut</sc>
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214          <sc>child</sc>
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217          <sc>labor</sc>
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220          <sc>bonus</sc>
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223          <sc>haiti</sc>
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226          <sc>korea</sc>
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229          <sc>sugar</sc>
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232          <sc>child</sc>
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235          <sc>labor</sc>
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238          <sc>haiti</sc>
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241          <sc>bonus</sc>
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244          <sc>korea</sc>
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247          <sc>black</sc>
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250          <sc>haiti</sc>
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253          <sc>sugar</sc>
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256          <sc>meerut</sc>
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259          <sc>haiti unemployed millions california cherry pickers striking miners alabama sugar beet workers indian masses scottsboro shanghai coolies patterson sugar beet workers colonial asia frick's miners cuba poor farmers japanese conscripts workers johannesburg miners chapei alabama negroes oxnard sugar beet workers indian masses bonus marchers ford strikers haiti</sc>
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263    <authors>
264      <author>
265        <person id="5661" sex="1" role="author">
266          <name>
267            <firstname>Langston</firstname>
268            <lastname>Hughes</lastname>
269          </name>
270          <life-events>
271            <date ty="birth" circa="false" suffix="ad">1902</date>
272            <date ty="death" circa="false" suffix="ad">1967</date>
273            <text-value>(1902–67)</text-value>
274          </life-events>
275          <biography>y</biography>
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284      <citation-form id="00000096547P01">
285        <title id="00000096547P01">Wait</title>
286        <firstline>I am the Silent One</firstline>
287        <lastline>
288          <sc>SUGAR BEET WORKERS INDIAN MASSES BONUS MARCHERS FORD STRIKERS HAITI</sc>
289        </lastline>
290      </citation-form>
291      <fulltext>y</fulltext>
292    </selection-title>
293  </selection-titles>
294</poem>
295
         
        

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