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Idle Moments :

Containing Emancipation and other Poems

Davis, D. Webster

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The Owls' Song.

De Nigger's Got to Go.

“If I Should Die.”

De Linin' ub De Hymns.

“The City of the Dead.”

Stickin' To De Hoe.

My Childhood's Happy Days.

Ole Virginny Reel.

The Negro as He Is.

Bakin an' Greens.

The Triumvirate.

A Christmas Wish.

[To Willie L. Hamlin.]

The Fellow This Will Fit.

Disappointment.

Pomp's Case Argued.

Skeetin' on De Ice.

Light in Darkness.

Uncle Rastus and the Whisky Question.

Sweet Sabbath Bells.

I Wonder How This Is?

Champion of Right—Good Night.

Ginger Snaps and Cider.

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Idle Moments :

Containing Emancipation and other Poems

D. Webster Davis

The Educator of Morgan College

Baltimore, Md.

1895