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a collection of poem sermons by James Weldon Johnson, including

  • "Listen, Lord - A Prayer" - an invocation
  • "The Creation" - a retelling of the creation story of the Bible
  • "The Prodigal Son" - from the biblical parable of the prodigal son
  • "Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon" - in which Jesus is depicted as sending his servant, Death, to bring to heaven a weary woman who is old and ready to die, so that she can rest
  • "Noah Built the Ark" - retelling the biblical stories of Adam and Eve, a story of how sin entered the world, and of Noahand the Great Flood sent to cleanse the earth
  • "The Crucifixion" - telling the story of Jesus' crucifixion
  • "Let My People Go" - telling the biblical story of Moses and his work freeing the Hebrew slaves from Egypt, which has often been the basis of comparisons to the African-American slavery experience in the United States
  • "The Judgment Day" - the prophetic story of the Apocalypse
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