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Fenton Johnson, "Aunt Jane Allen" (1919)

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AUNT JANE ALLEN

   State Street is lonely to-day. Aunt Jane Allen has driven her chariot to Heaven.
   I remember how she hobbled along, a little woman,
parched of skin, brown as the leather of a satchel
and with eyes tluit Iiad scanned eighty years of life.
   Have those who bore her dust to tlie last resting
phire buried with her the basket of aprons she went
up and down State Street trying to sell?
   Have those who bore her dust to the last resting
place buried with her the gentle word Son that she
gave to each of the seed of Ethiopia?

Published in Others, 1919

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