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James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.

My Little Dreams

I’M folding up my little dreams

Within my heart to-night,

And praying I may soon forget

The torture of their sight.

For Time’s deft fingers scroll my brow

With fell relentless art—

I’m folding up my little dreams

To-night, within my heart!