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In the forenoon's restful quiet	A
When the boys are off at school	B
When the window lights are shaded	C
And the chimney corner cool	B
Then the old man seeks his armchair	D
Lights his pipe and settles back	E
Falls a dreaming as he draws it	F
Till the smoke wreaths gather black	E
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And the tear drops come a trickling	G
Down his cheeks a silver flow	H
Smoke or memories you wonder	I
But you never ask him no	H
For there 's something almost sacred	J
To the other family folks	K
In those moods of silent dreaming	G
When the old man smokes	K
	-
Ah perhaps he sits there dreaming	G
Of the love of other days	L
And of how he used to lead her	I
Through the merry dance's maze	L
How he called her little princess	M
And to please her used to twine	N
Tender wreaths to crown her tresses	O
From the matrimony vine	N
	-
Then before his mental vision	P
Comes perhaps a sadder day	Q
When they left his little princess	M
Sleeping with her fellow clay	Q
How his young heart throbbed and pained him	R
Why the memory of it chokes	K
Is it of these things he 's thinking	G
When the old man smokes	K
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But some brighter thoughts possess him	R
For the tears are dried the while	S
And the old worn face is wrinkled	T
In a reminiscent smile	S
From the middle of the forehead	U
To the feebly trembling lip	V
At some ancient prank remembered	W
Or some long unheard of quip	V
	-
Then the lips relax their tension	P
And the pipe begins to slide	X
Till in little clouds of ashes	Y
It falls softly at his side	X
And his head bends low and lower	I
Till his chin lies on his breast	Z
And he sits in peaceful slumber	I
Like a little child at rest	Z
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Dear old man there 's something sad'ning	G
In these dreamy moods of yours	A2
Since the present proves so fleeting	G
All the past for you endures	A2
Weeping at forgotten sorrows	B2
Smiling at forgotten jokes	K
Life epitomized in minutes	C2
When the old man smokes	K

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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