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C.S.Brown
print 1889
Sent his hymn to the Sierra Leone Weekly News from Bonthe on Sherbro Island, most likely a Krio trader or pastor. It praises Queen Victoria on her seventieth birthday, and quietly asks whether she has earned it.
Usay wi fɛn am ↗Ɔda pɔym dɛn
Wi dɔn fɛn sɔm lay nɔmɔ. Na dɛn ya; wi go print di ɔl pɔym wɛn wi fɛn am. Yu go ɛp wi fɛn di res?
Her Majesty’s Seventieth Birthday
Sierra Leone Weekly News, 8 June 1889
Victoria, Queen and Mother, On England’s throne doth reign Can we most highly render To God our high refrain? On this thy grandest birthday Roll three score year and ten Indeed, we count thee worthy. And all respond, Amen. […]
Wi de fɛn amDi ɔl pɔym de na di Sierra Leone Weekly News, 8 June 1889. Yu gɛt kɔpi? Tɔk to wi →