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By Countee Cullen
Harper & Brothers, Publishers New York and London mcmxxv
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Copyright, 1925, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America
To my Mother and Father This First Book
For permission to reprint certain of these poems thanks is hereby given to the following publications:
The American Mercury The Bookman The Century The Crisis The Conning Tower: New York World Folio Harper’s Magazine Les Continents The Messenger The Nation Opportunity Palms Poetry: A Magazine of Verse The Southwestern Christian Advocate The Survey Graphic The World Tomorrow Vanity Fair
SOON every sprinter,
However fleet,
Comes to a winter
Of sure defeat: