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Paul Laurence Dunbar

I found you and I lost you,
  All on a gleaming day.
The day was rilled with sunshine,
  And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
  Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
  And all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
  All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
  It is always brimming May.

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From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar | Dodd, Mead And Company, 1922

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