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Offering

by Georgia Douglas Johnson

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I seek no tokens of you dear I only ask to give The purple flower of my heart And you will let it live.

I ask no fealty or plight, I only pray that you May find earth’s barren places bright Perhaps, because it grew.

And when for you the final sun Moves toward the darkening West, I shall be lingering to place Love’s flower on your breast.

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