"Many Thousand Gone"

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's poem is a spiritual called "Many Thousand Gone" (also known as "No More Auction Block").

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, and today is Wednesday, June 17th, 2020.
0:08.3	The poem that I'm going to read today is from a collection that I mentioned yesterday, American Poetry, the 19th Century, Volume 2.
0:15.9	It's from Melville all the way up through a section that has American Indian songs and poems,
0:22.3	and then folk songs and spirituals.
0:24.6	And the poem that I'm going to read today is a spiritual called Many Thousand Gone,
0:30.1	also known as No More Auction Block.
0:33.6	It's a six stanza poem with four lines in each stanza.
0:38.2	And of course, this was meant to be sung, but I'm going to read it like a poem.
0:44.2	So I'm going to read it and then read something quickly from a website called Ballot of America.
0:49.5	So this is many thousand gone.
0:51.8	As far as I can tell, it's an anonymous spiritual that was probably developed over time
0:57.7	and adapted and evolved.
1:00.8	So I don't have an exact name for where it first came from, a poet or a songwriter.
1:07.8	But it goes like this.
1:11.0	No more auction block for me.
1:14.2	No more.
1:15.3	No more.
1:16.6	No more auction block for me.
1:19.7	Many thousand gone.
1:22.5	No more peck of corn for me.
1:24.7	No more.
1:26.2	No more.
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