Stephen Collins Foster

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    “The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
    Wherever the darkey may go;
    A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
    In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
    A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
    No matter, ‘t will never be light;
    A few more days till we totter on the road:—
    Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)

    “Seynt Stevene was a clerk in Kyng Herowdes halle.
    And servyd him of bred and cloth, as every kyng befalle.”
    —Unknown. St. Stephen and King Herod (l. 1–2)

    “And Truth, in sunny vest arrayed,
    By whose the tarsel’s eyes were made;”
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

    “Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
    Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
    Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
    Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)