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 "poet": "Georgia Douglas Johnson",
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 "book": "Poetry",
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  "year": 1925,
  "venue": "The Messenger 7.7 (July 1925)",
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  "uncertain": false,
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   "https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-promise-and-prejudice-1925"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "If you can laugh along the road,",
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   {
    "text": "Although you bend beneath a load",
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   {
    "text": "Of sorrow,",
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   {
    "text": "Your hope-lit eyes shall surely see",
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   {
    "text": "A rainbow sweep eternity",
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   {
    "text": "Tomorrow.",
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