< The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
For works with similar titles, see A Song.

A SONG

On a summer's day as I sat by a stream,
  A dainty maid came by,
  And she blessed my sight like a rosy dream,
And left me there to sigh, to sigh,
  And left me there to sigh, to sigh.

On another day as I sat by the stream,
  This maiden paused a while,
  Then I made me bold as I told my dream,
She heard it with a smile, a smile,
  She heard it with a smile, a smile.

Oh, the months have fled and the autumn's red,
  The maid no more goes by:
  For my dream came true and the maid I wed,
And now no more I sigh, I sigh,
  And now no more I sigh.

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

 
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