I do not know the ocean’s song, Or what the brooklets say; At eve I sit and listen long, I cannot learn their lay.…
James Ephraim McGirt was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, in 1874. His books include Some Simple Songs and a Few More Ambitious Attempts (George F. Lasher, 1901) and Avenging the Maine, a Drunken A. B. and Other Poems (Edwards and Broughton, 1899). McGirt died on June 3, 1930, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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The fields are white, The laborers are few; Yet say the idle, There’s nothing to do. Jails are crowded, In Sunday Schools few; We still complain There’s nothing to do. Drunkards ar…