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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

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