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A Choice

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 dew0drop in a honey cup!

Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems

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