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Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Countee Cullen
Prayer, Wine, Dark
Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.52, Library of America
Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.