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Longing

    By Paul Laurence Dunbar



    If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day,
    And whisper with me sweetest dreamings o'er and o'er;
    I think I should not find the clouds so dim and gray,
    And not so loud the waves complaining at the shore.

    If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day,
    And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old,
    I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray,
    Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold.

    If you could walk with me upon the strand to-day,
    And tell me that my longing love had won your own,
    I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away,
    And I could give back laughter for the Ocean's moan!



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