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The Sympathy Sisters chose to tackle one of our poetry assignments for their website project. The poem Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a very moving and vivid poem, and the ladies worked very hard trying to convey that to their audience. I hope you enjoy their work.

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Sympathy
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
          I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
          When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
          When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
          And the river flows like a stream of glass;
          When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
          And the faint perfume from it's chalice steals -
          I know what the caged bird feels!

          I know whay the caged bird beats his wing,
          Till it's blood is red on the cruel bars;
          For he must fly back to his perch and cling
          When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
          And pain still throbs in the old, old scars
          And they pulse again with a keener sting -
          I know why he beats his wing!

          I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
          When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,
          When he beats his bars and he would be free;
          It is not a carol of joy or glee,
          But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
          But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings -
          I know why the caged bird sings!


      Button.jpg (3444 bytes)Stephanie A.'s essay on Sympathy
      Button.jpg (3444 bytes)Jill B.'s essay on Sympathy
      Button.jpg (3444 bytes)Crystal M.'s biography of Paul Dunbar

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