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COMPENSATION

COMPENSATION

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.

285

Paul Laurence Dunbar.

THE END

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

A cloud possessed the hollow field.....

A Fire-Mist and a planet..

204

238

A great, still Shape, alone.

A little way to walk with you, my own.

163

252

A little while (my life is almost set!)..

145

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Ah, little flower, upspringing, azure-eyed.

210

Ah! sad are they who know not love...

165

Ah! there be souls none understand..

181

Ah! worshipped one, ah, faithful Spring..

274

All day the stormy wind has blown...

180

All in the leafy darkness, when sleep had passed me by 255
"All quiet along the Potomac," they say..

175

All ye who love the springtime—and who but loves

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Because my life has lain so close to thine..

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Bedtime's come fu' little boys...

283

Behind him lay the gray Azores...

182

Birds are singing round my window...

132

Blessed the Dead in Spirit, our brave dead.

256

Blessings on thee, little man....

43

Blue gulf all around us..

121

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew.

21

By the flow of the inland river.....

134

Came the relief. "What, sentry, ho!".

177

Can freckled August, - drowsing warm and blond... 268

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Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone....

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Death's but one more to-morrow. Thou art gray.

142

Divinely shapen cup, thy lip....

245

Do you fear the force of the wind

249

Down the long hall she glistens like a star.

208

Enamored architect of airy rhyme.

168

Elysium is as far as to.

147

Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle

suggestion is fairer....

157

Forenoon and afternoon and night, - Forenoon..
From the Desert I come to thee..

188

127

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-

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Good-bye, no, do not grieve that it is over.

Gray-cowled wind of the east!...

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf.

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Green be the turf above thee.

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How falls it, oriole, thou hast come to fly..
How many lives, made beautiful and sweet.
How shall we know it is the last good-bye?.

I blew, I blew, the trumpet loudly sounding..
I cannot make him dead!.
I challenge not the oracle.

I count my time by times that I meet thee.

I dare not think that thou art by, to stand.

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161

117

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159

196

277

I do not own an inch of land..

I dragged my body to the pool of sleep.

I fear no power a woman wields...

I fill this cup to one made up.

118

212

270

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could not be.

I hear you, little bird..

I have two friends, two glorious friends, two better

I idle stand that I may find employ.

123

219

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I saw, one sultry night above a swamp.

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If I lay waste and wither up with doubt.

171

If life be as a flame that death doth kill.

188

If the red slayer think he slays....

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