Up from the skeleton stone walls, up from the rotting floor boards and the solid hand-hewn beams of
Up from the skeleton stone walls, up from the rotting floor boards and the solid hand-hewn beams of oak of the pre-war cotton factory, dusk came. - “Blood-Burning Moon,” from Cane (1923), J. Toomer -- source link
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