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Bronze (Johnson)/To Samuel Coleridge Taylor

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4696331Bronze — To Samuel Coleridge TaylorGeorgia Douglas Camp Johnson
TO SAMUEL COLERIDGE TAYLOR, UPON HEARING HIS

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Strange to a sensing motherhood,
Loved as a toy—not understood,
Child of a dusky father, bold;
Frail little captive, exiled, cold.

Oft when the brooding planets sleep,
You through their drowsy empires creep,
Flinging your arms through their empty space,
Seeking the breast of an unknown face.