DIVINE EPIGRAMS: ON THE BAPTIZED ETHIOPIAN - Stephen Crane Poems

 
 

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DIVINE EPIGRAMS: ON THE BAPTIZED ETHIOPIAN

Let it no longer be a forlorn hope
      To wash an Ethiope;
He's wash'd, his gloomy skin a peaceful shade,
      For his white soul is made;
And now, I doubt not, the Eternal Dove
      A black-fac'd house will love.