A Choice

Paul Laurence Dunbar

They please me not—these solemn songs
That hint of sermons covered up.
‘T is true the world should heed its wrongs,
  But in a poem let me sup,
Not simples brewed to cure or ease
Humanity’s confessed disease,
But the spirit-wine of a singing line,
  Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!

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