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 "title": "Escape",
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 "poet": "Georgia Douglas Johnson",
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  "year": 1925,
  "venue": "The Crisis 30.1 (May 1925)",
  "note": "Located in the issue scan on disk under the heading ESCAPE and signed “Georgia Douglas Johnson”; the masthead reads “Vol. 30 No. 1  MAY, 1925  Whole No. 175”. The Crisis printing opens “SORROW, sorrow, / Hug me round” where the corpus and The New Negro read “Shadows, shadows,”; the other fifteen lines agree, the later “Shadows, shadows,” included. Recorded, not adjudicated. Reprinted the same year in The New Negro (1925), ed. Alain Locke, page 147, whose acknowledgements credit The Crisis for this poem.",
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    "text": "Shadows, shadows,",
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    "text": "Hug me round",
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    "text": "So that I shall not be found",
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    "text": "By sorrow:",
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    "text": "She pursues me",
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    "text": "Fold me in your black",
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    "text": "Abyss,",
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    "text": "She will never look",
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    "text": "In this⁠—",
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    "text": "Shadows, shadows,",
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    "text": "Hug me round",
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    "text": "In your solitude",
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