Sorrow Singers
Hear their viol-voices ringing Down the corridor of years,
As they lift their twilight faces Through a mist of falling tears !
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Hear their viol-voices ringing Down the corridor of years,
As they lift their twilight faces Through a mist of falling tears !
Georgia Douglas Johnson imagines a chorus of sorrowful singers whose voices still resonate long after they are gone. She hears them ringing down a “corridor of years,” which makes time feel like a long hallway where past pain and beauty echo into the present.
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