Into the garden of sorrow,
Some day we all must roam,
If not to-day, then to-morrow,
Bow ’neath its purple dome,
Out from the musk-laden banqueting halls,
Doffing our mirth-spangled vestments like thralls,
Softly we wend to Gethsemane,
In the hour that sorrow calls!
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Gethsemane
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
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