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ELEGY FOR THE QUEEN OF SHEBA: 3 by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR

First Line: THE PROMISED DAY, THE FESTIVE DAWN EXUDING THE FRESH-SMELLING
Last Line: BEATING THE LAND IN THE TIME WHEN - YOUR LIPS BARELY %OPENED-- %OUR ARMS SWIM IN THE TORRENT LIKE VI
Subject(s): NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT);

Poem Sources:

THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, V20#6, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER /91.
  (1991)
 
THE COLLECTED POETRY. MELVIN DIXON (TR.)
  SENGHOR, LEOPOLD SEDAR
  (1991)
 



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