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Wake

Langston Hughes

Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red -
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.




Quotes of the Day

It is never too late to be who you want to be.
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Poems of the Day
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    The Rendezvous
    by Alan Seeger
    He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the cathedral-tower, Fall the faint chimes and the thrice-sequent bell.