SCINTILLA
by: William Stanley Braithwaite
(1878-1962)
- KISSED
a kiss in youth
Upon a dead man's brow;
And that was long ago,--
And I'm a grown man now.
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- It's lain there in the dust,
Thirty years and more;--
My lips that set a light
At a dead man's door.
"Scintilla" is reprinted
from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon
Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922 |
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