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Colored Blues Singer

Some weep to find the Golden Pear

Feeds maggots at the core,

And some grow cold as Ice, and bear

Them prouder than before

 

But you go singing like the sea

Whose lover turns to land;

You make your grief a melody

And take it by the hand.

 

Such songs the mellow-bosomed maids

Of Africa intone

For lovers dead in hidden glades,

Slow rotting flesh and bone.

 

Such keenings tremble from the kraal,

Where sullen-browed abides

The second wife whose dark tears fail

To draw him to her sides.

 

Somewhere Jeritza breaks her heart

On symbols Verdi wrote;

You tear the strings of your soul apart,

Blood dripping note by note.

1. Maria Jeritza, a Chech-born soprano was a major opera star of the twenties and thirties.”

2. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer of some of the most famous operas in the world, including Aida (1871), Otello (1887), Il Trovatore (1853) and La Traviata (1853)

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