Stephen Collins Foster

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    Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
    Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
    Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
    I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.”
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    De Camptown racetrack five miles long—
    Oh! doo-dah-day!
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    I forsak the, Kyng Herowdes, and thi werkes alle;
    Ther is a chyld in Bedlem born is beter than we alle.’
    —Unknown. St. Stephen and King Herod (l. 6–8)

    And Truth, in sunny vest arrayed,
    By whose the tarsel’s eyes were made;
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

    Charles Foster Kane: You always said you wanted to live in a palace.
    Susan Alexander: Oh, a person could go crazy in this dump. Nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with.
    Charles Foster Kane: Susan.
    Susan Alexander: Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I’m lonely.
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)