WINTER IS COMING
by: Waverley Turner Carmichael
- E winter
days are drawin' nigh
An' by the fire I sets an' sigh;
De nothe'n win' is blowin' cold,
Like it done in days of old.
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- De yaller leafs are fallin' fas',
Fur summer days is been an' pas';
The air is blowin' mighty cold,
Like it done in days of old.
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- De frost is fallin' on de gras'
An' seem to say "Dis is yo' las'" --
De air is blowin' mighty cold
Like it done in days of old.
"Winter is Coming" is
reprinted from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed.
James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,
1922. |
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