by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906)
Because I had loved so deeply
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Because I had loved so deeply, Because I had loved so long, God in His great compassion Gave me the gift of song. Because I have loved so vainly, And sung with such faltering breath, The Master in infinite mercy Offers the boon of Death.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company.
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- by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "Compensation", appears in Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, first published 1905 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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