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SYLVESTER'S DYING BED by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES

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First Line: I WOKE UP THIS MORNIN'
Last Line: Then everything was darkness / in a great big night
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; NEGROES; AMERICAN BLACKS;
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