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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)


              1Wintah, summah, snow er shine,
              2  Hit's all de same to me,
              3Ef only I kin call you mine,
              4  An' keep you by my knee.

              5Ha'dship, frolic, grief er caih,
              6  Content by night an' day,
              7Ef only I kin see you whaih
              8  You wait beside de way.

              9Livin', dyin', smiles er teahs,
            10  My soul will still be free,
            11Ef only thoo de comin' yeahs
            12  You walk de worl' wid me.

            13Bird-song, breeze-wail, chune er moan,
            14  What puny t'ings dey'll be,
            15Ef w'en I's seemin' all erlone,
            16  I knows yo' hea't's wid me.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1913), Facsimile in The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, ed. Joanne M. Braxton (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993), p. 178. PS 1556 AI 1993 Robarts Library.
First publication date: 1903
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/3

Form: Hymnal Measure
Rhyme: abab

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