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Title: The Lesson Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar [More Titles by Dunbar] My cot was down by a cypress grove, And I thought of myself so sad and lone, But e'en as I listened the mock-bird's song, For oft from the darkness of hearts and lives So I sang a lay for a brother's ear But at his smile I smiled in turn, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |