<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417334" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of the Son</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pour O pour that parting soul in song<br>O pour it in the sawdust glow of night<br>Into the velvet pine-smoke air tonight,<br>And let the valley carry it along.<br>And let the valley carry it along.<br>O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,<br>So scant of grass, so proligate of pines,<br>Now hust before an epoch's sun declines<br>Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee,<br>Thy son, I have in time returned to thee.<br>In time, for though the sun is setting on<br>A song-lit race of slaves, it has not set;<br>Though late, O soil, it is not too late yet<br>To catch thy plaintive soul, leaving, soon gone,<br>Leaving, to catch thy plaintive soul soon gone.<br>O Negro slaves, dark purple ripened plums,<br>Squeezed, and bursting in the pine-wood air,<br>Passing, before they stripped the old tree bare<br>One plum was saved for me, one seed becomes<br>an everlasting song, a singing tree,<br>Caroling softly souls of slavery,<br>What they were, and what they are to me,<br>Caroling softly souls of slavery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jean+Toomer">Jean Toomer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417334" data-title="Song of the Son de Jean Toomer" data-description="Pour O pour that parting soul in song O pour it in the sawdust glow of night Into the velvet pine-smoke air tonight, And let the valley carry it along. And let the valley carry it along. O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of gr..."></div> </div> </div>

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