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The Suppliant
Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door,
Praying the patient, futile prayer my fathers prayed before;
Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard,
And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word.
Soft o'er the threshold of the years there comes this counsel
cool:
The strong demand, contend, prevail, the begger is a fool!
Written by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)
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