The Dove (Dunbar)

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The Dove by Paul Laurence Dunbar

information about this edition.  In the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

              THE DOVE

Out of the sunshine and out of the heat,
Out of the dust of the grimy street,
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word—Love!

Ah, I was toiling, and oh, I was sad:
I had forgotten the way to be glad.
Now, smiles for my sadness and for my toil, rest
Since the dove fluttered down to its home in my breast!

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