Cover art for A Brown Girl Dead by Countee Cullen

A Brown Girl Dead

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A Brown Girl Dead Lyrics

With two white roses on her breasts,
White candles at head and feet,
Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;
Lord Death has found her sweet.


Her mother pawned her wedding ring
To lay her out in white;
She'd be so proud she'd dance and sing
to see herself tonight.

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