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

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SLEEP.

Sleep!

Cums de solemn night,

An’ de day’s tuck flight!

Not er bird ner coon

Am er whis-lin’ choon.

Sleep!

Sleep!

Slo’ de hours slip ’long

To de brooklet’s song,

In de sof deep hush

Cums de star’s sweet blush.

Sleep!

Sleep!

In er lonesum tone

Ez he creep erlone,

Cums de cricket call

Fum de vine clad wall.

Sleep!

Sleep!

Up de hillside steep

Now de moon take creep!

 

Th’ew de cab’n loft, gleam

On er coon in dream.

Sleep!

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