Countee Cullen

“ Before whose feet you fall;
Here be two dead who will be three,
And you have slain us all.
Go dig one grave to hold us all
And make it deep and wide;
And lay the Brown Girl at my feet,
Fair London by my side."
And as he spoke his hand went up,
And singing steel swept down,
And as its kiss betrayed his heart,
Death wore a triple crown.
And in the land where the grass is blue,
In a grave dug deep and wide,
The Brown Girl sleeps at her true lord's feet,
Fair London by his side.
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“ That hung above his head;
He picked its strings and played a tune
And sang it to the dead.
"O lovers never barter love
For gold or fertile lands,
For love is meat and love is drink,
And love heeds love's commands." ”

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