The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Confessional
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CONFESSIONAL
Search thou my heart;
If there be guile,
It shall depart
Before thy smile.
Search thou my soul;
Be there deceit,
'T will vanish whole
Before thee, sweet.
Upon my mind
Turn thy pure lens;
Naught shalt thou find
Thou canst not cleanse.
If I should pray,
I scarcely know
In just what way
My prayers would go.
So strong in me
I feel love's leaven,
I 'd bow to thee
As soon as Heaven!
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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