Remove the chains on our wings; we want to fly.
No matter how dim the hope is, we want to try.
Soon no longer slavebirds we shall be.
We shall be birds of joy, forever free.
Now we must trudge in the darkness of fear,
With only stars as companions,
But then freedom is near.
Left claw, right claw, farther into the night,
Soon the light of dawn came into sight.
Free at last, free at last…
Rejoice, the days of sorrow have passed.
– FROM A SONG IN THE OLD SCRIPTURE