“Compensation” | Paul Laurence Dunbar
Posted On July 28, 2014
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Compensation is a matter dear to lawyers’ hearts, white-collar and otherwise. Here’s a poem (via www.poets.org) by Paul Laurence Dunbar:
Compensation
Because I had loved so deeply,
Because I had loved so long,
God in His great compassion
Gave me the gift of song.Because I have loved so vainly,
And sung with such faltering breath,
The Master in infinite mercy
Offers the boon of Death.
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872.
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He wrote numerous books of poems, including Majors and Minors (1895), as well as several novels and a play. He died in 1906 in Dayton, Ohio. “Compensation” was originally published in Dunbar’s 1905 collection Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow.