Resignation (Dunbar)

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Resignation by Paul Laurence Dunbar

In the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

          RESIGNATION

Long had I grieved at what I deemed abuse;
   But now I am as grain within the mill.
If so be thou must crush me for thy use,
   Grind on, O potent God, and do thy will!

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