<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431598" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sylvester’s Dying Bed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I woke up this mornin’ <br>’Bout half-past three. <br>All the womens in town <br>Was gathered round me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Sweet gals was a-moanin’, <br>“Sylvester’s gonna die!” <br>And a hundred pretty mamas <br>Bowed their heads to cry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I woke up little later <br>’Bout half-past fo’, <br>The doctor ‘n’ undertaker’s <br>Both at ma do’. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Black gals was a-beggin’, <br>“You can’t leave us here!” <br>Brown-skins cryin’, “Daddy! <br>Honey! Baby! Don’t go, dear!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But I felt ma time’s a-comin’, <br>And I know’d I’s dyin’ fast. <br>I seed the River Jerden <br>A-creepin’ muddy past— <br>But I’s still Sweet Papa ’Vester, <br>Yes, sir! Long as life do last! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So I hollers, “Com’ere, babies, <br>Fo’ to love yo’ daddy right!” <br>And I reaches up to hug ’em— <br>When the Lawd put out the light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then everything was darkness <br>In a great ... big ... night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Langston+Hughes">Langston Hughes</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=431598" data-title="Sylvester’s Dying Bed de Langston Hughes" data-description="I woke up this mornin’ ’Bout half-past three. All the womens in town Was gathered round me. Sweet gals was a-moanin’, “Sylvester’s gonna die!” And a hundred pretty mamas Bowed their heads to cry. I woke up little later ’..."></div> </div> </div>

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