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

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I KISSED a kiss in youth

Upon a dead man’s brow;

And that was long ago,—

And I’m a grown man now.

It’s lain there in the dust,

Thirty years and more;—

My lips that set a light

At a dead man’s door.