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Caroling Dusk/What Need Have I for Memory?

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Caroling Dusk (1927)
edited by Countee Cullen
What Need Have I for Memory? by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson4751236Caroling Dusk — What Need Have I for Memory?1927Countee Cullen

WHAT NEED HAVE I FOR MEMORY?

What need have I for memory,When not a single flowerHas bloomed within life’s desertFor me, one little hour?
What need have I for memoryWhose burning eyes have metThe corse of unborn happinessWinding the trail regret?