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The Souls of Black Folk · ¶481

Yet the soul-hunger is there, the restlessness of the savage, the wail of the wanderer, and the plaint is put in one little phrase:
One line of musical notation with the lyric ‘My soul wants something that’s new, that’s new’.
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