“Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days,
Even the sacred moments when we played,
All innocent of passion, uncorrupt,
At noon and evening in the flame-heart’s shade.”

—  Claude McKay

Flame-Heart, l. 26-29

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Jamaican American writer, poet 1889–1948

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