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EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER by COUNTEE CULLEN

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First Line: THIS LOVELY FLOWER FELL TO SEED
Last Line: THAT SHE WOULD GROW AGAIN.
Subject(s): GRANDPARENTS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DEATH; FLOWERS; GRANDPARENTS; GRANDMOTHERS; GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDMOTHERS; NEGROES; AMERICAN BLACKS; DEAD, THE; GRANDMOTHERS; GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDFATHERS; GREAT GRANDMOTHERS;
This lovely flower fell to seed.
Work gently, sun and rain --
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.



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