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Lament for Dark Peoples


I was a red man one time,
But the white men came.
I was a black man, too,
But the white men came.


They drove me out of the forest.
They took me away from the jungles.
I lost my trees.
I lost my silver moons.


Now they've caged me
In the circus of civilization.
Now I herd with the many-
Caged in the circus of civilization.

Written by Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

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