Stephen Collins Foster

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    Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
    Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
    Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
    Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away.
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
    Wherever the darkey may go;
    A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
    In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
    A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
    No matter, ‘t will never be light;
    A few more days till we totter on the road:—
    Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)

    All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.
    Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    But com’st a decent maid,
    In Attic robe array’d,
    O chaste, unboastful nymph, to thee I call!
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

    I don’t know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I’ve never been bored a day in my life.
    —Jodie Foster (b. 1962)