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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Tell your love where the roses blow,
  And the hearts of the lilies quiver,
Not in the city’s gleam and glow,
  But down by a half-sunned river.
Not in the crowded ball-room’s glare,
  That would be fatal, Marie, Marie,
How can she answer you then and there?
  So come then and stroll with me, my dear,
  Down where the birds call, Marie, Marie.

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

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