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MESSAGE by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR

First Line: THEY SENT ME A SWIFT COURIER
Last Line: HERALD OF THE GOOD NEWS, SUCH WAS HIS IVORY MESSAGE
Subject(s): NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT);

Poem Sources:

NEW BOOK OF AFRICAN VERSE.
  REED, JOHN, & WAKE, CLIVE (EDS.)
  (1984)
 



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