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CANE
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CANE
Jean Toomer
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Jean Toomer
CANE
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Wisehouse Classics
© 2020 Wisehouse Publishing | Sweden
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ISBN 978-91-7637-859-5
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Dedication
To my grandmother . . .
KARINTHA
Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon,
O cant you see it, O cant you see it,
Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon
. . . When the sun goes down.
Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down. Old men rode her hobby-horse upon their knees. Young men danced with her at frolics when they should have been dancing with their grown-up girls. God grant us youth, secretly prayed the old men. The young fellows counted the time to pass before she would be old enough to mate with them. This interest of