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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Mar-10 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Origins: history of Down by the Riverside
Subject: RE: Origins: history of Down by the Riverside
Not really.

Soon from the whitewashed churches roll away
Among the live oak trees,
Rivers of melancholy harmonies,
Full of the sorrows of the centuries
The white man hears, but cannot feel.
H. A.

Pages from Book of Sea Islands, Du Bose Heyward and Hervey Allen.