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At least two titles have referred to the poem:

"God's Minute" by Dr, Benjamin E. Mays

Also known as "Just a Minute."

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I only have a minute.

Sixty seconds in it.

Forced upon me, I did not choose it,

But I know that I must use it.

Give account if I abuse it.

Suffer if I lose it.

Only a tiny little minute,

But eternity is in it.

Elijah Cummings recited this in his very first speech to Congress. The poem was written by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, a pioneering civil rights leader who was the president of Morehouse College during Martin Luther King Jr.’s education there.