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)

    Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me;
    I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    Two voices are there: one is of the deep;
    It learns the storm-cloud’s thunderous melody,
    —James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892)

    And thou, thou rich-haired youth of morn,
    And all thy subject life was born!
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

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