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Paul Laurence Dunbar

‘Twixt a smile and a tear,
  ‘Twixt a song and a sigh,
‘Twixt the day and the dark,
  When the night draweth nigh.

Ah, sunshine may fade
  From the heavens above,
No twilight have we
  To the day of our love.

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

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