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"Here Lies Jim Crow," Droppin' Science Exhibit. Second Life
I walk through the churchyard
To lay this body down
I know moon-rise, I know star-rise;
I walk in the moonlight, I walk in the starlight;
I'll lie in the grave and stretch out my arms,
I'll go to judgment in the evening of the day,
And my soul and thy soul shall meet that day,
When I lay this body down.
From: Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. “Of the Sorrow Songs,” in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 250-264. United States: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1903.
