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.
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