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Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

— DuBose Heyward Skylines and Horizons (1924)

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It is cruel for a woman with her man gone,
An' the younguns allus hungry, an' winter comin' on.

Skylines and Horizons (1924)

Summer time, an' the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin', an' the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich an' yo' ma is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don't yo' cry.

Here lies a spendthrift who believed
That only those who spend may keep;
Who scattered seeds, yet never grieved
Because a stranger came to reap.

Skylines and Horizons (1924)

You could not give me toys in those bleak days;
So when my playmates proudly boasted theirs,
You caught me to the shelter of your arms,
And taught me how to laugh away my tears.

Skylines and Horizons (1924)

Porgy lived in the Golden Age. Not the Golden Age of a remote and legendary past; nor yet the chimerical era treasured by every man past middle life, that never existed except in the heart of youth; but an age when men, not yet old, were boys in an ancient, beautiful city that time had forgotten before it destroyed.

Porgy (1925)

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