"Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch'll go a-singin' as it pass." Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. A Death Song (l. 1-2). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
"Fu' I t'ink de las' long res'
Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes'
If I's layin' 'mong de t'ings I's allus knowed." Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), U.S. poet. A Death Song (l. 13-15). . .
Poetry of the Negro, The, 1746-1970. Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, eds. (Rev. ed., 1970) Doubleday & Company. |
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