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1872–1906

A CHOICE

Paul Laurence Dunbar

They please me not — these solemn songs That hint of sermons covered up. ‘ Tis true the world should heed its wrongs, But in a poem let me sup,

Not simples brewed to cure or ease Humanity's confessed disease, But the spirit-wine of a singing line, Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!

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