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Read the poem "To a Dark Girl" by Gwendolyn Bennett.Gwendolyn Bennet was a dynamic figure in the Harlem Renaissance. She was an artist, poet, journalist, and essayist. Her most well-known poem is "To a Dark Girl."Readers can conclude that despite having been enslaved, the dark girl is quite regal in her appearance.Highlight the lines that best convey this idea.To a Dark Girlby Gwendolyn BennettI love you for your brownness,And the rounded darkness of your breast,I love you for the breaking sadness in your voiceAnd shadows where your wayward eyelids rest.Something of old forgotten queensLurks in the lithe abandon of your walkAnd something of the shackled slaveSobs in the rhythm of your talk.Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow's mate,Keep all you have of queenliness,Forgetting that you once were slave,And let your full lips laugh at Fate!