# Quote — James Weldon Johnson, God's Trombones

> This Great God,
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> Like a mammy bending over her baby,
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> Kneeled down in the dust
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> Toiling over a lump of clay
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> Till He shaped it in His own image.

- Author: [James Weldon Johnson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-weldon-johnson.md)
- Book: [God's Trombones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-weldon-johnson/gods-trombones.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-weldon-johnson/gods-trombones/this-great-god

## More from this book

> With his head in his hands,
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> God thought and thought,
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> Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-weldon-johnson/gods-trombones/with-his-head.md)

> And God smiled again,
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> And the rainbow appeared,
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> And curled itself around his shoulder.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-weldon-johnson/gods-trombones/and-god-smiled.md)

> So God stepped over to the edge of the world
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> And He spat out the seven seas;
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> He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed;
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> He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;
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> And the waters above the earth came down,
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> The cooling waters came down.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-weldon-johnson/gods-trombones/so-god-stepped.md)