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James D. Corrothers
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“Yearned Shelley o'er the golden flame? Left Keats for beauty's lure, a name But "writ in water"? Woe is me! To grieve o'er flowerful faëry. My Phasian doves are flown so long— The dream is lovelier than the song!”
James D. Corrothers (1869–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dream and the Song", st. 3, in James Weldon Johnson, ed., The Book of American Negro Poetry (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), p. 36