| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41416 |
| QUOTATION: | Through heavy menace and mystery Of half-waking tropic dawn, Behold a little black boy, A naked black boy, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Effie Lee Newsome (18851979), U.S. poet. Morning Light (l. 58). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row. |
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