Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems by Elliott Blaine Henderson - HTML preview
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De moon’s dun sneaked
Clah out er sight,
De stars dun quit
Dey peepin’;
De shaddahs dun gone
Stole erway,
De world’s dun quit
It’s sleepin’.
De hours dey’s slowly
Creeped erlong
Until de world’s in light
An’ song;
De sun smiles on
Creation’s throng—
Er cross de worl’
Goes sweeping.
