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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906)
Conscience and Remorse
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“Good-by for aye and aye;”
And I put her hands off harshly,
And turned my face away:
And Conscience, smitten sorely,
Returned not from that day.
Grew weary of its pace:
And I cried, “Come back, my Conscience,
I long to see thy face;”
But Conscience cried, “I cannot,—
Remorse sits in my place.”