Now is fiercely the time
to make real the always
urgent mountaintop dream
of helping America
keep its palace of justice
promises that were built
on the unfulfilled content
of the city-on-the-hill
character that cries
My country, Because of Thee
I Sing let freedom ring
in an always timely
and timelessly raging
and ringing dreamtime that
America will someday fulfill
its promissory promises
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