The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

Compensation

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Because I had loved so deeply,

Because I had loved so long,

God in His great compassion

Gave me the gift of song.

Because I have loved so vainly,

And sung with such faltering breath,

The Master in infinite mercy

Offers the boon of Death.

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