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A Set of Three Dunbar

Song Cycle by Betty Jackson King (1928 - 1994)

1. Dawn  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
An angel, robed in spotless white,
Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.
Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.
[Men]1 saw the blush and called it Dawn.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "Dawn", appears in Majors and Minors, first published 1895

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1 Hall: "Man"

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2. Theology  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
There is a heaven, for ever, day by day,
The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so.
There is a hell, I'm quite sure; for pray,
If there were not, where would my neighbours go?

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "Theology"

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3. Compensation  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
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]1,
The Master in infinite mercy
Offers the boon of Death.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906), "Compensation", appears in Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, first published 1905

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Confirmed with The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company.

1 Price: "trill"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 114
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