<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477860" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lesson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY cot was down by a cypress grove,<br>And I sat by my window the whole night long,<br>And heard well up from the deep dark wood<br>A mocking-bird's passionate song.<br>And I thought of myself so sad and lone,<br>And my life's cold winter that knew no spring;<br>Of my mind so weary and sick and wild,<br>Of my heart too sad to sing.<br>But e'en as I listened the mock-bird's song,<br>A thought stole into my saddened heart,<br>And I said, 'I can cheer some other soul<br>By a carol's simple art.'<br>For oft from the darkness of hearts and lives<br>Come songs that brim with joy and light,<br>As out of the gloom of the cypress grove<br>The mocking-bird sings at night.<br>So I sang a lay for a brother's ear<br>In a strain to soothe his bleeding heart,<br>And he smiled at the sound of my voice and lyre,<br>Though mine was a feeble art. <br>But at his smile I smiled in turn,<br>And into my soul there came a ray:<br>In trying to soothe another's woes<br>Mine own had passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477860" data-title="The Lesson de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="MY cot was down by a cypress grove, And I sat by my window the whole night long, And heard well up from the deep dark wood A mocking-bird's passionate song. And I thought of myself so sad and lone, And my life's cold winter that knew no spring; Of..."></div> </div> </div>

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