Common Dust
And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan
And solve the mystery?
The high, the low, the rich, the poor,
The black, the white, the red,
And all the chromatique between,
Of whom shall it be said:
Here lies the dust of Africa;
Here are the sons of Rome;
Here lies the one unlabelled,
The world at large his home!
Can one then separate the dust?
Will mankind lie apart,
When life has settled back again
The same as from the start?
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3 replies on ““Common Dust” by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 – 1966)”
where was this poem first published
like in a magazine or like a newspaper
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Thank you for your message. I’m not exactly sure where this poem was originally published. However, I can do some research about it, then tell you what I learn.
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when was this poem published
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