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Caroling Dusk/When I Am Dead

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Georgia Douglas Johnson4751243Caroling Dusk — When I Am Dead1927Countee Cullen

WHEN I AM DEAD

When I am dead, withhold, I pray, your blooming legacy;Beneath the willows did I bide, and they should cover me;I longed for light and fragrance, and I sought them far and near,O, it would grieve me utterly, to find them on my bier!