Stephen Collins Foster

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    Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
    Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
    Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
    I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.”
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    All up and down the whole creation,
    Sadly I roam,
    Still longing for the old plantation,
    And for the old folks at home.
    —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)

    Massa’s in de cold, cold ground.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    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)