Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow/Diplomacy

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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DIPLOMACY

TELL your love where the roses
  blow,
 And the hearts of the lilies quiver,
Not in the city's gleam and glow
 But down by a half-sunned river
Not in the crowded ball-room's glare,
 That would be fatal, Marie, Marie,
How can she answer you then and there?
  So come then and stroll with me,
   my dear,
  Down where the birds call, Marie,
   Marie.