Porgy

PORGY DU BOSE HEYWARD


Books by the Same Author
CAROLINA CHANSONS (WITH HERVEY ALLEN) SKYLINES AND HORIZONS

Decorated by THEODORE NADEJEN NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1925, By George H. Doran Company PORGY —B— PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR DOROTHY HEYWARD


Porgy, Maria, and Bess, Robbins, and Peter, and Crown; Life was a three-stringed harp Brought from the woods to town. Marvelous tunes you rang From passion, and death, and birth, You who had laughed and wept On the warm, brown lap of the earth. Now in your untried hands An instrument, terrible, new, Is thrust by a master who frowns, Demanding strange songs of you. God of the White and Black, Grant us great hearts on the way That we may understand Until you have learned to play.