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A Brown Girl Dead

With two white roses on her breasts,
  White candles at head and feet,  
Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;
  Lord Death has found her sweet.
 
Her mother pawned her wedding ring  
  To lay her out in white;
She’d be so proud she’d dance and sing  
  To see herself tonight.
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