Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems by Elliott Blaine Henderson - HTML preview

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BLISSFUL ANTICIPATIONS.

Jes’ gimme summah all de time,

An’ lemme take it easy.

Jes’ lay back in de cloveah beds

An’ dream whah it am breezy.

I doan kyeah fo’ no robe ner crown

Ez long ez I kin wollah ’roun’

An’ nebbah hab to hoe de grown’.

Ha! ha! yo’ thinks Ise lazy!

 

I’d spawk an’ court Miss Lissy Jane—

Umph! but I’d cut er spluttah!

I’d tell her dis, I’d tell her dat,

Fus’ one thing den er nuddah.

We’d ramble whah de wild flow’rs bloom

Dat fill de air wid sweet scent ’fume

Whah dey’s no clouds an’ dey’s no gloom!

We’d sot de worl’ to fiuttah!

I’d git mah banjo fum de wall

An’ now an’ den go plinkin’!

I’d make de dahky’s heels jes’ itch

To dance ez fas’ es winkin’!

I’d make her sing, I’d make her moan,

I’d sen’ er tone to Gabriel’s throne,

I’d play dem tricks befo’ unknown,

I’d sot de fo’ks to thinkin’!

I kno’ yo’ thinks dis dahky slo’

An’ tawkin’ jes’ fo’ blowin’!

An’ buildin’ castles in de air,

An’ debbilment er sowin’.

It’s jes, prezaxly lak I say,

Jes’ shows Ise ol’ an’ shows Ise gray.

Befo’ de Lawd! it’s almos’ day!

To bed! de chicken’s crowin’!

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