Poem: “She Told Her Beads” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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She Told Her Beads

She told her beads with down-cast eyes,

Within the ancient chapel dim;

And ever as her fingers slim

Slipt o’er th’ insensate ivories,

My rapt soul followed, spaniel-wise.

Ah, many were the beads she wore;

But as she told them o’er and o’er,

They did not number all my sighs.

My heart was filled with unvoiced cries

And prayers and pleadings unexpressed;

But while I burned with Love’s unrest,

She told her beads with down-cast eyes.

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