Stephen Collins Foster

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

    Gwine to run all night!
    Gwine to run all day!
    I’ll bet my money on de bobtail nag—
    Somebody bet on de bay.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    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)

    Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.
    Griffin Jay, and Harold Young. Stephen Banning (Dick Foran)

    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)

    Sadly I roam,
    Still longing for de old plantation,
    And for de old folks at home.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)