African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology

Lucian Watkins, "Frederick Douglass-Orator" (1917)

Down in the lowly valleys, by the rills,
He said his simple prayers and made his moan;
Then caught the sudden thunder of the hills
And swayed the world--Heaven's eloquence his own!

Published in The Crisis, August 1917

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