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Plantation echoes

SLEEP.

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Sleep! Cums de solemn night, An’ de day’s tuck flight! Not er bird ner coon Am er whis-lin’ choon. Sleep! Sleep! Slo’ de hours slip ’long To de brooklet’s song, In de sof deep hush Cums de star’s sweet blush. Sleep! Sleep! In er lonesum tone Ez he creep erlone, Cums de cricket call Fum de vine clad wall. Sleep! Sleep! Up de hillside steep Now de moon take creep! Th’ew de cab’n loft, gleam On er coon in dream. Sleep!

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