Three Dunbar Verses

Song Cycle by Carson P. Cooman

1. Compensation  [sung text not yet checked]

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

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

1 Price: "trill"

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2. Silence  [sung text not yet checked]

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'T is better to sit here beside the sea,
Here on the spray-kissed beach,
In silence, that between such friends as we
Is full of deepest speech.

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3. Theology  [sung text not yet checked]

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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?

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Total word count: 111