When all is done, say not my day is o'er, And that thro' night I seek a dimmer shore: Say rather that my morn has just begun,— I greet the dawn and not a setting sun, When all is done.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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- When All Is Done, final stanza; The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar; Full poem read; complete final stanza, original contractions retained. A poetic speaker imagines death as a new dawn after suffering; no biographical or factual afterlife claim. Public-domain text.
- When All Is Done, final stanza; The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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