Stephen Collins Foster

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    Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me;
    I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    De Camptown racetrack five miles long—
    Oh! doo-dah-day!
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    I forsak the, Kyng Herowdes, and thi werkes alle;
    Ther is a chyld in Bedlem born is beter than we alle.’
    —Unknown. St. Stephen and King Herod (l. 6–8)

    I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    Bernstein: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler.” Any answer?
    Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)