Caroling Dusk/The Serving Girl

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Caroling Dusk (1927)
edited by Countee Cullen

The Serving Girl by Gladys May Casely-Hayford

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THE SERVING GIRL

The calabash wherein she served my food,Was smooth and polished as sandalwood:Fish, as white as the foam of the sea,Peppered, and golden fried for me.She brought palm wine that carelessly slipsFrom the sleeping palm tree’s honeyed lips.But who can guess, or even surmiseThe countless things she served with her eyes?