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Waring Cuney, "On With the Dirge" (1929)
12025-05-17T08:59:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12131Poem by Waring Cuney Published in Saturday Evening Quill, 1929plain2025-05-17T08:59:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Play, O jazz band! The dance-girl is dead. (If any one asks for her Tell him softly That she has gone) . . . O play, jazz band! Play a gay dirge, For a dead dance-girl.
Published in Saturday Evening Quill, 1929
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12024-04-01T15:04:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1"Saturday Evening Quill"Amardeep Singh3Poems published in "Saturday Evening Quill," an African American literary magazine based in Boston, MAplain2025-05-09T16:00:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1