Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PERSPECTIVE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON


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First Line: Some day
Last Line: That wound me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


Some day
I shall be glad that it was mine to be
A dark fore-runner of a race burgeoning;
I then shall know
The secret of life's Calvary,
And bless the thorns
That wound me!





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