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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE QUILTING, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography
First Line: Dolly sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stitch
Last Line: Love will do the stitching if she'll only be my match.
Subject(s): Quilts
First Line: Dolly sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stitch
Last Line: Love will do the stitching if she'll only be my match.
Subject(s): Quilts
DOLLY sits a-quilting by her mother, stich by stitch,
Gracious, how my pulses throb, how my fingers itch,
While I note her dainty waist and her slender hand,
As she matches this and that, she stitches strand by strand.
And I long to tell her Life's a quilt and I'm a patch;
Love will do the stitching if she'll only be my match.
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