Carolina QuotesYou could not give me toys in those bleak days; So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs, You caught me to the shelter of your arms, And taught me how to laugh away my tears.
DuBose Heyward Carolinian
Source
"Your Gifts"
- work
- Skylines and Horizons (1924)
- year
- 1924
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