 | Congregational churches - 1922 - 754 pages
...Negro Spirituals, the greatest gift of the Negro to society, said, " Never it seems to me since men first lived and suffered was his infinite longing for peace uttered more plaintively than in the lines, ' I lay in de grave and stretch out my arms.' The very fact that no one person or generation... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 782 pages
...dis body down ; And my sou! and your soul will meet in de day Win- n I lay dis body down." '• I 'II lie in de grave and stretch out my arms." Never, it...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line. The next is one of the wildest and most striking of the whole series: there is a mystical effect and a... | |
 | William Francis Allen - African Americans - 1867 - 186 pages
...of de day When I lay, &c. 7 And my soul an' your soul will meet in de day When we lay, &o. [ " • I'll lie in de grave and stretch out my arms.' Never,...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line." — Col. Higginson.] HEATEN BELL A-EING. 1. My Lord, my Lord, what shall I do ? And a heav'n bell a-ring... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 782 pages
...by dis body down ; And my -oui and your soul will meet in de day When I by dis body down." ft I 'll lie in de grave and stretch out my arms." Never, it...to me, since man first lived and suffered, was his infmite longing for peace uttered more plaintively than in that line. The next is one of the wildest... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - African-American soldiers - 1870 - 342 pages
...lay dis body down ; And my soul and your soul will meet in de day When I lay dis body down." " I '11 lie in de grave and stretch out my arms." Never, it...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line. The next is one of the wildest and most striking of the whole series : there is a mystical effect and a... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1882 - 310 pages
...soul will meet in de day When I lay dis body down." " I '11 lie in de grave and stretch out my arras." Never, it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered,...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line. The next is one of the wildest and most striking of the whole series : there is a mystical effect and a... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - African Americans - 1909 - 454 pages
...your soul will meet in de day, When I lay dis body down. "Never, it seems to me," says Mr. Higginson, "since man first lived and suffered, was his infinite...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line, 'I'll lie in de grave and stretch out my arms.'" Another and more familiar one of the plantation hymns... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - Music - 1915 - 584 pages
...soul will meet in de day When I lay dis body down." "Never, it seems to me,' comments Col. Higginson, 'since man first lived and suffered, was his infinite...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line.' There are many other examples of such funeral songs preserved; some of them Mr. Krehbiel has reprinted... | |
 | James Weldon Johnson - African Americans - 1922 - 274 pages
...Thomas Wentworth Higginson of Boston, one of the first to give these slave songs serious study, said : "Never it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered,...peace uttered more plaintively than in that line." These Negro folksongs constitute a vast mine of material that has been neglected almost absolutely.... | |
 | 1928 - 418 pages
...down. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a great name (perhaps the greatest) in this connection, wrote : " Never, it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered,...infinite longing for peace uttered more plaintively. At last, after a lifetime of toil, he would be able to ' lie and stretch out his arms ' " — at last... | |
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Never, it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered, was his infinite longing for peace uttered more plaintively than in that line. 
