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Porgy

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Porgy (1925)
by DuBose Heyward
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PORGY


DU BOSE HEYWARD

PORGY

DU BOSE HEYWARD

Decorated by

THEODORE NADEJEN


GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers
by arrangement with GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1925
By George H. Doran Company

PORGY
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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