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COMPARISON by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

First Line: THE SKY OF BRIGHTEST GRAY SEEMS DARK
Last Line: DEEMS ROBIN STILL THE SWEETEST BIRD.
Subject(s): ROBINS;

THE sky of brightest gray seems dark
To one whose sky was ever white.
To one who never knew a spark,
Thro' all his life, of love or light,
The grayest cloud seems overbright.

The robin sounds a beggar's note
Where one the nightingale has heard,
But he for whom no silver throat
Its liquid music ever stirred,
Deems robin still the sweetest bird.



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