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ELEGY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING: 5 by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR

First Line: AS THE REVEREND'S HEART EVAPORATED LIKE INCENSE AND HIS SOUL
Last Line: IN HIS LIVING HAND, I SING OF TRANSPARENT AMERICA WHERE LIGHT %IS A POLYPHONY OF COLORS, I SING OF A
Subject(s): NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT);

Poem Sources:

CALLALOO, V13#1, WINTER /90.
  (1990)
 
THE COLLECTED POETRY. MELVIN DIXON (TR.)
  SENGHOR, LEOPOLD SEDAR
  (1991)
 



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