Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DE 'LECTION SURE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON


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First Line: De white folks low dat dey's de race
Last Line: You saf't th'ough peter's gate.
Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


DE white folks low dat dey's de race
What's gwine ter win de day,
Dat hebben wan' made fur colored folks
Dat shout en sing en pray.

I'm gwine ter argify de case,
En show widout er doubt,
Dat we will walk dem golden streets,
En facks will b'ar me out.

Den let de white man 'joy de quails
En mammon by hisse'f,
We'll eat de husks—but jedgement day
Will fin' de white man lef'.

Fur tell me dis, you ornry set
What mos' has gone ter sleep,
Ain't de nigger wid his kinky wool
Mos' kin ter Mister Sheep?

Ob cose he is—dese woolly haids
Wid woolly sheep will stain',
En de white man wid de Billy Goat
Be ranged at de lef' han'.

Stop puttin' b'ar grease on yer haid
Ter comb de kinks out straight,
Fur dese same woolly haids will kear
You saf't th'ough Peter's gate.





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