Miracle, and Other Poems

<h2 id="id00115" style="margin-top: 4em">A SOUTHERN LULLABY</h2> <p id="id00116">Little honey baby, shet yo' eyes up tight;—<br/> (Shadow-man is comin' from de moon!)—<br/> You's as sweet as roses if dey is so pink an white;<br/> (Shadow-man '11 get here mighty soon.)<br/></p> <p id="id00117">Little honey baby, keep yo' footses still!—<br/> (Rocky-bye, oh, rocky, rocky-bye!)<br/> Hush yo' now, an listen to dat lonesome whippo'-will;<br/> Don't yo' fix yo' lip an start to cry.<br/></p> <p id="id00118">Little honey baby, stop dat winkin' quick!;<br/> (Hear de hoot-owl in de cotton-wood!)<br/> Yess—I sees yo' eyes adoin' dat dere triflin' trick—<br/> (He gets chillun if dey isn't good.)<br/></p> <p id="id00119">Little honey baby, what yo' think yo' see?—<br/> (Sister keep on climbin' to de sky—)<br/> Dat's a June bug—it aint got no stinger, lak a bee—<br/> (Reach de glory city by an by.)<br/></p> <p id="id00120">Little honey baby, what yo' skeery at?—<br/> (Go down, Moses—down to Phar-e-oh,)—<br/> No—dat isn't nuffin but a furry fly-round bat;—<br/> (Say, he'd betta let dose people go.)<br/></p> <p id="id00121">Little honey baby, yo' is all ma own,—<br/> Deed yo' is.—Yes,—dat's a fia-fly;—<br/> If I didn't hab yo'—reckon I'd be all alone;<br/> (Rocky-bye—oh, rocky, rocky-bye.)<br/></p> <p id="id00122">Little honey baby, shet yo' eyes up tight;—<br/> (Shadow man is comin' from de moon,)<br/> You's as sweet as roses, if dey is so pink and white;<br/> (Shadow-man '11 get here mighty soon.)<br/></p> <p id="id00123" style="margin-top: 2em">   The lines in brackets are supposed to be sung or chanted.<br/> The Southern "Mammy" seldom sang a song through, but<br/> interladed it with comments.—V.S.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />