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Find Sister Caroline...
And she's tired—
She's weary—
Go down, Death, and bring her to me.
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Father, Father Abraham,
To-day look on us from above;
On us, the offspring of thy faith,
The children of thy Christ-like love.
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How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed forward on a star?
Or gazing empty at despair?
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So God stepped over to the edge of the world
And He spat out the seven seas;
He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed;
He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;
And the waters above the earth came down,
The cooling waters came down.
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James Weldon Johnson
Born:
June 17, 1871
Died:
June 26, 1938
(aged 67)
Bio:
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.
Known for:
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
Black Manhattan (1930)
Fifty years & other poems (1917)
Along this way (1933)
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