Caroling Dusk/Recessional

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I Want to Die While You Love Me

Caroling Dusk (1927)
edited by Countee Cullen

Recessional by Georgia Douglas Johnson

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RECESSIONAL

Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away;Or yet a flower that has blown and shattered in a day;For passion sleeps alas and keeps no vigil with the yearsAnd wakens to no conjuring of orisons or tears.

Consider me a melody that served its simple turn,Or but the residue of fire that settles in the urn,For love defies pure reasoning and undeterred flowsWithin, without, the vassal heart—its reasoning who knows?