1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,300 Good morning, everyone. Eli, Joaquin, and I are going to read some poems in celebration of the school day of non-violence and peace, which looks January 30th. 2 00:00:10,779 --> 00:00:17,059 We hope these poems inspire you to look at peace at the day of your choice. And without further ado, I'll read mine. 3 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:24,280 This is a poem called The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry. 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:33,020 I chose this one because it makes a connection of peace with nature, which I think is really beautiful because it's all around us. 5 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:35,740 The Peace of Wild Things 6 00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:44,560 When despair grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound, in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, 7 00:00:45,179 --> 00:00:51,100 I go and I lie down where the wood drape rests and his beauty on the water, and the great height of the fields. 8 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:54,859 I come into peace, I come into the peace of wild things 9 00:00:54,859 --> 00:00:58,100 Who do not tax their lives with poor thought and grief 10 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:00,600 I come into the presence of still water 11 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,479 And I feel above me the day-blind stars 12 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:04,939 Waiting for their light 13 00:01:04,939 --> 00:01:08,099 For a time, I rest in the grace of the world 14 00:01:08,099 --> 00:01:09,140 And I am free 15 00:01:09,140 --> 00:01:15,239 Thank you, Sarah. 16 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:18,400 That was wonderful. 17 00:01:19,459 --> 00:01:21,319 So the poem that I'm going to be reading 18 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,700 is called O Son of Real Peace by Walt Whitman. 19 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:30,700 And I selected this poem because it's part of one of my favorite collections of poetry by Baldwin, 20 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:32,700 called Leaves of Grass. 21 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:36,700 So this is a poem that was written following the end of the American Civil War, 22 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:42,459 and it's about basically looking forward to the future and hoping that... 23 00:01:42,459 --> 00:01:46,459 So without further ado, this is O Son of Real Peace. 24 00:01:46,459 --> 00:01:50,459 O Son of Real Peace, O hasten and light, 25 00:01:50,459 --> 00:01:55,459 O free and ecstatic, O what I hear, prepare me, roar before thee. 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,939 Oh, the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height. 27 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,700 And you too, oh my ideal, will surely ascend. 28 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:09,300 Oh, so amazing and broad, up there with splendid, darting and burning. 29 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:14,580 Oh, vision prophetic, staggered with wave of light, with pouring glories. 30 00:02:15,099 --> 00:02:18,080 Oh, lips of my soul, already becoming powerless. 31 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,080 Oh, ample and grand, presidentiats. 32 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,840 Now the war, the war is over. 33 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,419 New history, new heroes, I project you 34 00:02:28,419 --> 00:02:31,719 Visions of poets, only you are the last 35 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:33,960 Sweep on, sweep on 36 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,560 Oh, heights too swift and dizzy yet 37 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,219 Oh, purge too luminous 38 00:02:38,219 --> 00:02:40,280 You threaten me more than I can stand 39 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,699 I must not venture 40 00:02:41,699 --> 00:02:44,020 The ground under my feet menaces me 41 00:02:44,020 --> 00:02:45,560 It will not support me 42 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,080 Oh, future too immense 43 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,060 Oh, present, I return 44 00:02:49,060 --> 00:02:50,819 While yet I may to you 45 00:02:50,819 --> 00:03:12,180 This poem that I'm going to read is short, but it says a lot about peace being in harmony with others, regardless of race, social status, or personal circumstances. 46 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:19,180 The title of the poem is I Dream a World by James Langston Hughes. 47 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:33,000 I give a world where man, no other man will squander, where love will bless the earth, and peace its paths avoid. 48 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:44,000 I give a world where all will know sweet freedom's way, where greed no longer saps the soul, nor avarice blights the day. 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:53,000 A world, I dream, where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth, 50 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:05,020 and everyone is free, where wretchedness will have its end, and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. 51 00:04:05,020 --> 00:04:09,020 Of such I dream, my Lord. 52 00:04:09,020 --> 00:04:11,020 Thank you very much for your time.