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“That in her heart, where love so long unfruited lay
A seed for grass or weed shall grow,
And push to light and air its heedless way;
That she who lies here dead may know
Through all the putrid marrow of her bones
The searing pangs of birth
While none may know the pains nor hear the groans
Of she who lived with barrenness upon the earth.”
- Gwendolyn Bennett
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A seed for grass or weed shall grow,
And push to light and air its heedless way;
That she who lies here dead may know
Through all the putrid marrow of her bones
The searing pangs of birth
While none may know the pains nor hear the groans
Of she who lived with barrenness upon the earth.”
- Gwendolyn Bennett