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CONTENTS

Foreword ix
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes 2
Death Song 4
Life 5
After the Quarrel 5
Ships that Pass in the Night 7
We Wear the Mask 8
Sympathy 8
The Debt 9
Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
The Tragedy of Pete 11
The Way-side Well 15
James Weldon Johnson
From the German of Uhland 17
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 18
The Creation 19
The White Witch 22
My City 25
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
A Litany of Atlanta 26
Braithwaite|William Stanley|Braithwaite
Scintilla 31
Rye Bread 31
October XIX, 1795 32
Del Cascar 33
James Edward McCall
The New Negro 34
Angelina Weld Grimké
Hushed by the Hands of Sleep 36
Greenness 36

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