This text comes from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.
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The Stirrup CupThe Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbarby Paul Laurence DunbarA ChoiceThen And Now→sister projects: Wikidata item
THEY please me not—these solemn songs
That hint of sermons covered up.
'T is true the world should heed its wrongs,
But in a poem let me sup,
Not simples brewed to cure or ease
Humanity's confessed disease,
But the spirit-wine of a singing line,
Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!