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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Bring me the livery of no other man.
  I am my own to robe me at my pleasure.
  Accepted rules to me disclose no treasure:
What is the chief who shall my garments plan?
  No garb conventional but I ‘ll attack it.
  (Come, why not don my spangled jacket?)

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

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