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Paul Laurence Dunbar - The King Is Dead

2014-11-10 2 Dailymotion

Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! <br />His life is lived--fulfilled his destiny. <br />Have you for him no sad, regretful tear <br />To drop beside the cold, unfollowed bier? <br />Can you not pay the tribute of a sigh? <br /> <br />Was he not kind to you, this dead old year? <br />Did he not give enough of earthly store? <br />Enough of love, and laughter, and good cheer? <br />Have not the skies you scanned sometimes been clear? <br />How, then, of him who dies, could you ask more? <br /> <br />It is not well to hate him for the pain <br />He brought you, and the sorrows manifold. <br />To pardon him these hurts still I am fain; <br />For in the panting period of his reign, <br />He brought me new wounds, but he healed the old. <br /> <br />One little sigh for thee, my poor, dead friend-- <br />One little sigh while my companions sing. <br />Thou art so soon forgotten in the end; <br />We cry e'en as thy footsteps downward tend: <br />'The king is dead! long live the king!'<br /><br />Paul Laurence Dunbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-king-is-dead-2/

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