Daybreak in Alabama

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The speaker fantasizes about becoming a composer by imagining music that emulates nature. This music creates harmony in both the sonic sense and the metaphorical sense, where unity and brotherhood triumph over tragedy and injustice. The music that this composer creates rises and falls like dew and mist and smells like flowers and earth. The speaker guides the reader through a stream of consciousness that ends when people of all races join together and bond over the music that this composer creates.

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