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You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,—but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.
--
O Black and Unknown Bards, st. 6

 

James Weldon Johnson

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