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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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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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James Weldon Johnson

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:
  1. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
  2. The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
  3. Black Manhattan (1930)
  4. Fifty years & other poems (1917)
  5. Along this way (1933)
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