Stephen Collins Foster

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    All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

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

    All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    Though taste, though genius bless
    To some divine excess,
    Faint’s the cold work till thou inspire the whole;
    What each, what all supply,
    May court, may charm our eye,
    Thou, only thou, canst raise the meeting soul!
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

    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)