Jes’ below de Mastah’s tr’one,
An’ have lef’ my hea’t a-singin’
In a happy aftah tone;
But dem wu’ds so sweetly murmured
Seem to tech de softes’ spot,
When my mammy says de blessin’,
An’ de co’n pone’s hot.
—Copyright by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, and used by arrangement.
THE COURTIN’
By James Russell Lowell