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A poem by John Greenleaf Whittier |
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The Jubilee Singers |
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Title: The Jubilee Singers Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] A number of students of Fisk University, under the direction of one of the officers, gave a series of concerts in the Northern States, for the purpose of establishing the college on a firmer financial foundation. Their hymns and songs, mostly in a minor key, touched the hearts of the people, and were received as peculiarly expressive of a race delivered from bondage. VOICE of a people suffering long, Their cry like that which Israel gave, The stern accord her timbrel lent The tramp that startled camp and town, The storm that swept through battle-days, Voice of a ransomed race, sing on 1880. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |