The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Unlucky Apple

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'Twas the apple that in Eden

Caused our father's primal fall;

And the Trojan War, remember--

'Twas an apple caused it all.

So for weeks I've hesitated,

You can guess the reason why,

For I want to tell my darling

She's the apple of my eye.

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