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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I sit and...

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I sit and sew -- a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams . . .

Source: I Sit and Sew .
-- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, ( 1875-1935), US poet, essayist; She published her first book of poems, essays, and stories, Violets and Other Tales, at age twenty; was also active in politics and women's clubs.


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