Lyrics of the Hearthside
The King is Dead
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year!
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year!
The carpenter is upset by a strange request.
"The mist has left the greening plain,"
"A blue–bell springs upon the ledge,"
"Ah, love, my love is like a cry in the night,"
So oft have I invoked thee for my muse
"Oh, wind of the spring–time, oh, free wind of May,"
With sombre mien, the Evening gray
A country man sows hemp seeds and a swallow warns the birds to eat all the seeds up, the birds did not take the swallow’s advice and the seeds grew into a net of cords that caught the birds. Moral: destroy evil before it destroys you.
"Come away to dreamin’ town,"
"Ain’t nobody nevah tol’ you not a wo’d a–tall,"
"My neighbor lives on the hill,"
"When summer time has come, and all"
"Out in de night a sad bird moans,"
Nature and the movement of clouds at dusk ignite the author's imagination.
"Dey ’s a so’t o’ threatenin’ feelin’ in de blowin’ of de breeze,"
"Heel and toe, heel and toe,"
A child creates a world from imagination.
"If the muse were mine to tempt it"
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long
Little Bear suggests that the three bears go out for a morning walk before breakfast. While walking, they find a campsite and try the food left in the pot. They discover a new love for prunes and sing a cheerful song about it.
With the help of a fox an old horse attempts to get back into his master's good graces.
"“Sunshine on de medders,"
Within a London garret high,