The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Song

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On a summer's day as I sat by a stream,

A dainty maid came by,

And she blessed my sight like a rosy dream,

And left me there to sigh, to sigh,

And left me there to sigh, to sigh.

On another day as I sat by the stream,

This maiden paused a while,

Then I made me bold as I told my dream,

She heard it with a smile, a smile,

She heard it with a smile, a smile.

Oh, the months have fled and the autumn's red,

The maid no more goes by:

For my dream came true and the maid I wed,

And now no more I sigh, I sigh,

And now no more I sigh.

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