vin'yard

Updated: May 17, 2025

They was jest a singin' 'The Light of the World is Jesus, I shall never forgit, when I was down to camp-meetin' to Marthy's Vin'yard a good while ago there was a little blind boy stood up on a bench and sung it all alone; and it made me cry to see him standin' there with his poor little white face, and eyes that couldn't see a' one of all the faces lookin' up to him, a singin' that out as bold and free, and he did pronounce the words so beautiful so as everybody could hear I can hear him a singin' of it out, now 'The Light of the World is Jesus. And I suppose we git to thinkin' that the light's in our eyes, maybe, or the light's in the sun, or the light's in the lamp, maybe.

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene - Cape Cod Folks