books.google.com - And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions, gradually, like day driving night across the continent, I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision. -- Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions" In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914--2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham"...http://books.google.com/books/about/Wrestling_With_the_Muse.html?id=xFpUhfisaLcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWrestling With the Muse