ARNA BONTEMPS The Return 163 A Black Man Talks of Reaping 165 To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country 165 Nocturne at Bethesda 166 Length of Moon 168 Lancelot 169 Gethsemane 169 A Tree Design 170 Blight 170 The Day-breakers 171 Close Your Eyes! 171 God Give to Men 172 Homing 172 Golgotha Is a Mountain 173 ALBERT RICE The Black Madonna 177 COUNTEE CULLEN Lines to Our Elders 179 I Have a Rendezvous with Life 180 Protest 181 Yet Do I Marvel 182 To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning 182 From the Dark Tower 183 To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime 184 Four Epitaphs 186 Incident 187 DONALD JEFFREY HAYES Inscription 188 Auf Wiedersehen 189 Night 189 Confession 190 Nocturne 190 After All 191 JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS The Resurrection 193 The Last Quarter Moon of the Dying Year 195 Paean 195 GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD Nativity 197 Rainy Season Love Song 198 The Serving Girl 200 Baby Cobina 200 LUCY ARIEL WILLIAMS Northboun’ 201 GEORGE LEONARD ALLEN To Melody 204 Portrait 204 RICHARD BRUCE Shadow 206 Cavalier 207