God's Trombones
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God's Trombones
SEVEN NEGRO SERMONS IN VERSE
by
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
DRAWINGS BY AARON DOUGLAS
LETTERING BY C. B. FALLS
NEW YORK The Viking Press MCMXXVII
Copyright, 1927, by The Viking Press, Inc.
Printed in U. S. A.
COMPOSITION AND PRESSWORK
BY
ABBOTT PRESS & MORTIMER-WALLING, INC.
NEW YORK
To Arthur B. Spingarn
Grateful acknowledgment is made for the kind permission to reprint the following poems: To The Freeman for "The Creation," to The American Mercury for "Go Down Death," and to The Century Magazine for "The Judgment Day."
Contents
Preface, 1
The Creation, 17
The Prodigal Son, 21
Go Down Death—A Funeral Sermon, 27
The Crucifixion, 39
Let My People Go, 45
The Judgment Day, 53
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