by Pete Seeger.

The first line is based on , where God shows Noah a rainbow as the sign of his covenant to not destroy the world again by flooding. The second line is based on : after being destroyed by water once, the world is preserved for the fire of the day of judgement. Fire is also used for the day of judgement in prophetic texts, as in and the lake of fire in .

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The book includes two essays that were written in the 1960s during a time of segregation

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