The Book of American Negro Poetry/Sprin' Fevah

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SPRIN' FEVAH

Dar's a lazy, sortah hazy Feelin' grips me, thoo an' thoo;An' I feels lak doln' less dan enythin'; Dough de saw is sharp an' greasy, Dough de task et han' is easy, An' de day am fair an' breezy, Dar's a thief dat steals embition in de win'.
Kaint defy it, kaint deny it, Kaze it jes won't be denied;Its a mos' pursistin' stubbern sortah thin'; Anti Tox' doan neutrolize it; Doctahs fail to analyze it; So I yiel's (dough I despise it) To dat res'less, wretchit fevah evah Sprin'.

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