“The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight;
The time has come when the darkies have to part:
Then my old Kentucky home, good night!”

— Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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American songwriter 1826–1864

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