PORGY

Copyright, 1925,
By George H. Doran Company

FOR DOROTHY HEYWARD

PORGY
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Porgy, Maria, and Bess, 
Robbins, and Peter, and Crown; 
Life was a three-stringed harp 
Brought from the woods to town.

Marvelous tunes you rang 
From passion, and death, and birth, 
You who had laughed and wept 
On the warm, brown lap of the earth.

Now in your untried hands
An instrument, terrible, new,
Is thrust by a master who frowns,
Demanding strange songs of you

God of the White and Black, 
Grant us great hearts on the way 
That we may understand 
Until you have learned to play.