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Langston Hughes, "Passing Love" (1927)

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Passing Love 
Langston Hughes 

Because you are to me a song-
I must not sing you overlong.

Because you are to me a prayer
I cannot say you everywhere.

Because you are to me a rose
You will not stay when summer goes.


Published in Opportunity, March 1927

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