# Quote — Jean Toomer, Cane

> Superstition saw
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> Something it had never seen before:
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> Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,
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> Beauty so sudden for that time of year.

- Author: [Jean Toomer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-toomer.md)
- Book: [Cane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-toomer/cane.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Toomer#Poems_from_Cane_(1923)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-toomer/cane/superstition-saw-something

## More from this book

> One seed becomes
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> An everlasting song, a singing tree,
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> Caroling softly souls of slavery,
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> What they were, and what they are to me,
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> Caroling softly souls of slavery.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-toomer/cane/one-seed-becomes.md)

> And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds,
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> His belly close to ground. I see the blade,
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> Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-toomer/cane/and-there-a-field.md)

> O singers, resinous and soft your songs
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> Above the sacred whisper of the pines,
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> Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,
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> Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-toomer/cane/o-singers-resinous.md)