Poem by Langston Hughes

Still Here

I been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
  Snow has friz me,
  Sun has baked me,

Looks like between 'em they done
  Tried to make me

Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'—
  But I don't care!
  I'm still here!

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3. Children's Rhymes
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