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Caroling Dusk/Proving

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Georgia Douglas Johnson4751190Caroling Dusk — Proving1927Countee Cullen

PROVING

Were you a leper bathed in woundsAnd by the world denied; I’d share your fatal exileAs a privilege and pride.You are to me the sun, the moon,The starlight of my soul,The sounding motif of my heart,The impetus and goal!