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I dreamed a dream at the midnight deep, / When fancies come and go / To vex a man in his soothing sleep / With thoughts of awful woe -- / I dreamed that I was a corner-man / Of a nigger minstrel show.
I cracked my jokes, and the building rang / With laughter loud and long; / I hushed the house as I softly sang / An old plantation song -- / A tale of the wicked slavery days / Of cruelty and wrong.