Paul Laurence Dunbar

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!
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