Oh! Night bringer forth morning
Oh! Morning how come you offer mourning?
Oh! Mississipi's, man has a home.
His village is not a deserted mountain,
His home is not an island for fountain,
But for those whose colors are proud to offer.
Why kneel and bow, for a shelter?
When grass and thatch houses are ready to accommodate,
Back home, oh! Mississipi's, for time to fall is time to rise.
Rise not your knowledge and sword asking questions
For God and nature cannot be questioned,
Oh! Mississipi's, control the tears.
My Analysis
This is a three stanza poem. The poem is elegiac or better put, a moody. The poet-persona laments the demise of some personality or personalities. There is the constant theme of lamentation which is echoed in the first three lines. The poet uses common everyday words but which are rather used in complicated syntax.