| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 29036 |
| QUOTATION: | They will nail you up twixt thieves
And gamble for your little garments.
And in this you will exceed God
For on this earth
You shall know Hell— |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Frank Horne (b. 1899), U.S. poet. On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church (l. 23–27). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746–1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
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