The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

Misapprehension

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Out of my heart, one day, I wrote a song,

With my heart's blood imbued,

Instinct with passion, tremulously strong,

With grief subdued;

Breathing a fortitude

Pain-bought.

And one who claimed much love for what I wrought,

Read and considered it,

And spoke:

"Ay, brother,--'t is well writ,

But where's the joke?"

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