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Paul Laurence Dunbar - The End Of The ChapterPaul Laurence Dunbar - The End Of The Chapter
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Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day;   We even lay the book away;   But oh, how sweet the moments sped   Before the final page was read!   We tried to read between the lines   The Author`s deep-concealed designs;   But scant reward such search secures;   You saw my heart and I saw yours.   The Master,--He who penned the page   And bade us read it,--He is sage:   And what he orders, you and I   Can but obey, nor question why.   We read together and forgot   The world about us. Time was not.   Unheeded and unfelt, it fled.   We read and hardly knew we read.   Until beneath a sadder sun,   We came to know the book was done.   Then, as our minds were but new lit,   It dawned upon us what was writ;   And we were startled. In our eyes,   Looked forth the light of great surprise.   Then as a deep-toned tocsin tolls,   A voice spoke forth: "Behold your souls!"   I do, I do. I cannot look   Into your eyes: so close the book.   But brought it grief or brought it bliss,   No other page shall read like this!
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