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

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SAMBO’S RAIN PHILOSOPHY.

Whut’s de use o’ raisin’

’Bout de weddah, cain?

Kase dey’s wid de sunshine

Mixed in clouds an’ rain;

Jes’ ez well be lafin’,

’Joicin’ in yo’ soul.

Frettin’ an’ er stewin’

Makes yo’ gray an’ ol’.

Mussen’ ’spec’ to allus

Git things jes’ yo’ way.

Keep yo’ eye kock’d open

On er beddah day.

Learn to ’cep’ de weddah

Ez de Lawd control,

In time will be shinin’

Sunshine bright an’ gold.

Lawd am boun’ to sen’ de

Changes now an’ den,

Kaze He knows whut’s beddah

Fo’ yo’ in de en’.

Fus’ He sends de sunshine,

Nex’ He sends de rain,

To gibb life an’ viggah

To de gol’en grain.

It’s de rainy weddah,

Buds de flowahs out,

 

Makes de wattahmilluns

An’ de ’tayters sprout;

It’s de rainy weddah

Makes de fahmahs shout;

Drives erway de famine,

Drives erway de drout.

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