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Claude McKay - The Spanish Needle
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Lovely dainty Spanish needle 
  With your yellow flower and white, 
Dew bedecked and softly sleeping, 
  Do you think of me to-night? 

Shadowed by the spreading mango, 
  Nodding o`er the rippling stream, 
Tell me, dear plant of my childhood, 
  Do you of the exile dream? 

Do you see me by the brook`s side 
  Catching crayfish `neath the stone, 
As you did the day you whispered: 
  Leave the harmless dears alone? 

Do you see me in the meadow 
  Coming from the woodland spring 
With a bamboo on my shoulder 
  And a pail slung from a string? 

Do you see me all expectant 
  Lying in an orange grove, 
While the swee-swees sing above me, 
  Waiting for my elf-eyed love? 

Lovely dainty Spanish needle, 
  Source to me of sweet delight, 
In your far-off sunny southland 
  Do you dream of me to-night?
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