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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
  But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.

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

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