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Title: My painted tree, and other poems
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Green, Allen Ayrault, 1880-1963
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Publisher: (Chicago?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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yellow;Those smiles upon your face seem to hide away the color; You^re full of happiness, you little fellow* YouVe two teeth out and you have snarly hair,—That hole in your sweater^s getting bigger, But that smile upon your face is the first thing that I see,Youre a happy, healthy, jolly, little nigger. Those big black eyes set in ivory white. Always looking white folks through and through;Those dirty overalls with those torn shoulder straps Seem clean enough for you, Wont you sell me one smile that I may take it home And make my little white boys glad ?Come, speak up!—ten dollars for a smile!— Will fifty do, my happy little lad? You cant sell it to me ?—well here, take a dime, I stole a part of one just now;And yet youre a-smiling as broadly as before; Come, take the fifty,—boy, and tell me how ! You wont?—you say that youd like to if you could.But theyre hard to give to folks thats white ? Yes, maybe thats so, you lucky little kid.When I think of it, I guess youre right.
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Colored people always seem to have no cares.Theyre happier than any other race; And every time a colored boy meets you on the street^A smile lightens up his colored face.

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