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GREAT GOD
I sometimes wonder how strong you are
what awful cosmic tension
throbs inside your restless brain
why in the scheme of conception
did you include pain

If we could meet on even terms
man to man
you stripped of power
I of fear,
I'd lift my shirt and show you scars
wide as the moon, black as the stars.

If only we could meet
in the ghetto or in the street
you stripped of the power of death
I of its fear,
I'd go away from you
and you would cry to have me back
Perhaps I shall return to wipe your eyes
for we could not have a God that cries 

Sea and sand
My love My land,
God bless Africa.

Sea and sand
My love My land,
God bless Africa.

But more the South of Africa where we live...

Bless the angry mountains
And the smiling hills
Where the cool water spills
To heal the earth's brow

Bless the children of South Africa
The white children
And the black children
But more the black children
Who lost the sea and sand
That they may not lose love
For white children
Whose fathers raped the land...

Sea and sand
My love My land,
God bless Africa

Many sunsets 
Gold and crimson
Have dripped on the horizon,
Weeping for the dying day.

Many dawns
Have risen
In timely resurrection
From their cradles of light.

Sunsets and dawns
Dawns and sunsets.
I have seen them all

But when,
Oh when will I see that day
When love will walk the common way
To heal my wounded people
And break the shackles around their hearts?