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    <title>
        <poem>
            <l>
                <und>BALLAD OF BOOKER T.</und>
            </l>
        </poem>
        <l>by</l>
        <auth>
            <l>Langston Hughes</l>
        </auth>
    </title>

    <l>Booker T.</l>
    <l aside="con">(Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Virginia in 1856. He was the founder of
        the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881).</l>
    <l>Was a practical man.</l>
    <l>He said, Till the soil</l>
    <l>And learn from the land.</l>
    <l aside="rev">In a first draft from May 30th, 1941, there is a handwritten addition of the word "and"</l>
    <l>Let down your bucket</l>
    <l>Where you are.</l>
    <l>Your fate is here</l>
    <l>And not afar.</l>
    <l>To help yourself</l>
    <l aside="og">(in the original document, there is the official seal of the library of congress
        stamped onto the lines above.)</l>
    <l>And your fellow man,</l>
    <l>Train your head,</l>
    <l aside="con">(Booker T. advocated for African Americans to become educated so that they may
        become self supporting and accumulate wealth)</l>
    <l>Your heart, <und>and your hand.</und></l>
    <l>For smartness alone's</l>
    <l>Surely not meet—</l>
    <l>If you haven't at the same time</l>
    <l>Got something to eat.</l>
    <l>Thus at Tuskegee</l>
    <l>He built a school</l>
    <l aside="con">(The previous line references how Booker T. founded the Tuskegee Institute in
        Alabama in 1881. It became the biggest school for African Americans in the South.)</l>
    <l>With book-learning there</l>
    <l>And the workman's tool.</l>
    <l>He started out</l>
    <l>In a simple way—</l>
    <l>For yesterday</l>
    <l>Was <und>not</und> today.</l>
    <l>Sometimes he had</l>
    <l>Compromise in his talk—</l>
    <l>For a man must crawl</l>
    <l>Before he can walk—</l>
    <l>And in Alabama in '85</l>
    <l>A joker was lucky</l>
    <l>To be alive.</l>
    <l>But Booker T.</l>
    <l>Was nobody's fool:</l>
    <l>You may carve a dream</l>
    <l>With an humble tool.</l>
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    <l>The tallest tower</l>
    <l>Can tumble down</l>
    <l>If it be not rooted</l>
    <l>In solid ground.</l>
    <l>So, being a far-seeing</l>
    <l>Education and Outreach Division</l>
    <l>Practical man,</l>
    <l>He said, Train your head,</l>
    <l>Your heart, <und>and your hand.</und></l>
    <l>Your fate is here</l>
    <l>And not afar,</l>
    <l>So let down your bucket</l>
    <l>Where you are.</l>
    <l aside="con">(The two previous lines, repeated from earlier in the poem, are pulled from
        Washington's speech in Atlanta, Georgia in 1895)</l>
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        <ind>LANGSTON HUGHES</ind>
        <ind>
            <info>Final Draft,</info>
        </ind>
        <ind>
            <place>Hollow Hills Farm,</place>
        </ind>
        <ind><location>Monterey, California</location>,</ind>
        <ind>
            <date when="1941-06-01">June 1, 1941.</date>
            <l aside="og">(In the original document, Langston Hughes' signature overlaps this
                information)</l>
        </ind>
    </end>
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