You sang far better than you knew; the songs That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed Still live,—but more than this to you belongs: You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), U.S. author. O Black and Unknown Bards (l. 45–48). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.
