Lyrics of sunshine and shadow / by Paul Laurence Dunbar [electronic text]
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Lyrics of sunshine and shadow / by Paul Laurence Dunbar [electronic text]
Author
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company
1905
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"Lyrics of sunshine and shadow / by Paul Laurence Dunbar [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5672.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025.
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THE BARRIER
THE Midnight wooed the Morning Star,And prayed her: "Love come nearer;Your swinging coldly there afarTo me but makes you dearer."
The Morning Star was pale with doleAs said she, low replying:"Oh, lover mine, soul of my soul,For you I too am sighing."
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"But One ordained when we were born,In spite of love's insistence,That night might only view the MornAdoring at a distance."
But as she spoke, the jealous SunAcross the heavens panted;"Oh, whining fools," he cried, "have done,Your wishes shall be granted."
He hurled his flaming lances far;The twain stood unaffrighted,And Midnight and the Morning StarLay down in death united.
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