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Enough Rope/The Small Hours

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3989509Enough Rope1926Dorothy Parker

The Small Hours

No more my little song comes back; And now of nights I lay My head on down, to watch the black And wait the unfailing gray.
Oh, sad are winter nights, and slow; And sad’s a song that’s dumb; And sad it is to lie and know Another dawn will come.