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Effie Lee Newsome, "Exodus" (1925)

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Rank fennel and broom
Grow wanly beside
The cottage and room
We once occupied,
But sold for the snows!

The dahoon berry weeps in blood,
I know,
Watched by the crow--
I've seen both grow
In those weird wastes of Dixie!


Published in The Crisis, January 1925

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