PORGY
DU BOSE HEYWARD
PORGY
DU BOSE HEYWARD
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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
Robbins, and Peter, and Crown;
Life was a three-stringed harp
Brought from the woods to town.
From passion, and death, and birth,
You who had laughed and wept
On the warm, brown lap of the earth.
An instrument, terrible, new,
Is thrust by a master who frowns,
Demanding strange songs of you
Grant us great hearts on the way
That we may understand
Until you have learned to play.
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