A Choice

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!

Paul Laurence Dunbar


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