The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar · Paul Laurence Dunbar

Despair

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Let me close the eyes of my soul

That I may not see

What stands between thee and me.

Let me shut the ears of my heart

That I may not hear

A voice that drowns yours, my dear.

Let me cut the cords of my life,

Of my desolate being,

Since cursed is my hearing and seeing.

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