Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | Conscience and Remorse | | Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) |
| | | “GOOD-BYE,” I said to my Conscience— | |
| “Good-bye for aye and aye;” | |
| And I put her hands off harshly, | |
| And turned my face away: | |
| And Conscience, smitten sorely, | 5 |
| Returned not from that day. | |
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| But a time came when my spirit | |
| Grew weary of its pace: | |
| And I cried, “Come back, my Conscience, | |
| I long to see thy face;” | 10 |
| But Conscience cried, “I cannot,— | |
| Remorse sits in my place.” | | | | |
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