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1  All night long the water is crying to me.
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2  As the water all night long is crying to me.
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3  At last the two came back together in the dark night.
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4  We sat and talked that night after the chores were done.
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5  Then the day ended not, and night was a dreamless terror, and joy and sleep slipped away.
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6  It was out in the country, far from home, far from my foster home, on a dark Sunday night.
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7  Indeed, the gaunt father who toiled night and day would scarcely be happy out of debt, being so used to it.
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8  The hours trembled on; the night listened; the ghastly dawn glided like a tired thing across the lamplight.
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9  When night falls on the City of a Hundred Hills, a wind gathers itself from the seas and comes murmuring westward.
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10  My desk was made of three boards, reinforced at critical points, and my chair, borrowed from the landlady, had to be returned every night.
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11  And, indeed, the merchants tell many a true tale of shiftlessness and cheating; of cotton picked at night, mules disappearing, and tenants absconding.
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12  I saw his breath beat quicker and quicker, pause, and then his little soul leapt like a star that travels in the night and left a world of darkness in its train.
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13  And then one night the little feet pattered wearily to the wee white bed, and the tiny hands trembled; and a warm flushed face tossed on the pillow, and we knew baby was sick.
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14  At last we spoke of the neighbors, and as night fell, Uncle Bird told me how, on a night like that, 'Thenie came wandering back to her home over yonder, to escape the blows of her husband.'
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15  He muttered to me with the murmur of many ages, when he said: "White man sit down whole year; Nigger work day and night and make crop; Nigger hardly gits bread and meat; white man sittin down gits all."
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16  But back of this still broods silently the deep religious feeling of the real Negro heart, the stirring, unguided might of powerful human souls who have lost the guiding star of the past and seek in the great night a new religious ideal.
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17  So here we stand among thoughts of human unity, even through conquest and slavery; the inferiority of black men, even if forced by fraud; a shriek in the night for the freedom of men who themselves are not yet sure of their right to demand it.
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