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Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Recluse" (1929)

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RECLUSE

The world goes out to holiday
   While I sit sad within
For nothing comes and nothing calls
   To me all walled in.

It is not mine to join with them
   Who flaunt their feathers gay
I do not know the mystic song
   They list so merrily.

The world goes out to holiday
   But I am exiled here
With naught to keep my company
   Save one slow falling tear.

Published in Troubador Magazine, June 1929

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