Public Domain Poetry And Stories - To A Dead Friend by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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To A Dead Friend

    By Paul Laurence Dunbar



    It is as if a silver chord
    Were suddenly grown mute,
    And life's song with its rhythm warred
    Against a silver lute.

    It is as if a silence fell
    Where bides the garnered sheaf,
    And voices murmuring, "It is well,"
    Are stifled by our grief.

    It is as if the gloom of night
    Had hid a summer's day,
    And willows, sighing at their plight,
    Bent low beside the way.

    For he was part of all the best
    That Nature loves and gives,
    And ever more on Memory's breast
    He lies and laughs and lives.



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