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Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.

Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902–1967), U.S. poet. The Weary Blues (l. 1–5). . .

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books.

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