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Caroling Dusk/Innocence

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Annie Bethel Scales Spencer4749166Caroling Dusk — Innocence1927Countee Cullen

INNOCENCE

She tripped and fell against a star,A lady we all have known;Just what the villagers lusted forTo claim her one of their own;Fallen but once the lower felt she,So turned her face and died,—With never a hounding fool to see’Twas a star-lance in her side!