The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Choice
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THEY please me not—these solemn songs
That hint of sermons covered up.
'T is 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!
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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