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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Knight

THE KNIGHT
Our good knight, Ted, girds his broadsword on  (And he wields it well, I ween); He 's on his steed, and away has gone  To the fight for king and queen. What tho' no edge the broadsword hath? What tho' the blade be made of lath?  'T is a valiant hand  That wields the brand, So, foeman, clear the path!
He prances off at a goodly pace;  'T is a noble steed he rides, That bears as well in the speedy race  As he bears in battle-tides. What tho' 't is but a rocking-chair That prances with this stately air?  'T is a warrior bold  The reins doth hold, Who bids all foes beware!
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lesson

THE LESSON
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 my mind so weary and sick and wild,  Of my heart too sad to sing.
 But e'en as I listened the mock-bird's song,  A thought stole into my saddened heart,  And I said, "I can cheer some other soul  By a carol's simple art."
 For oft from the darkness of hearts and lives  Come songs that brim with joy and light,  As out of the gloom of the cypress grove  The mocking-bird sings at night.
 So I sang a lay for a brother's ear  In a strain to soothe his bleeding heart,  And he smiled at the sound of my voice and lyre,  Though mine was a feeble art.
 But at his smile I smiled in turn,  And into my soul there came a ray:  In trying to soothe another's woes  Mine own had passed away.
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Garret

THE GARRET
Within a London garret high, Above the roofs and near the sky, My ill-rewarding pen I ply  To win me bread. This little chamber, six by four, Is castle, study, den, and more,— Altho' no carpet decks the floor,  Nor down, the bed.
My room is rather bleak and bare; I only have one broken chair, But then, there's plenty of fresh air,—  Some light, beside. What tho' I cannot ask my friends To share with me my odds and ends, A liberty my aerie lends,  To most denied.
The bore who falters at the stair No more shall be my curse and care, And duns shall fail to find my lair  With beastly bills. When debts have grown and funds are short, I find it rather pleasant sport To live "above the common sort"  With all their ills.
I write my rhymes and sing away, And dawn may come or dusk or day: Tho' fare be poor, my heart is gay.  And full of glee. Though chimney-pots be all my views; 'T is nearer for the winging Muse, So I am sure she 'll not refuse  To visit me.
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Gourd

THE GOURD
In the heavy earth the miner  Toiled and laboured day by day, Wrenching from the miser mountain  Brilliant treasure where it lay. And the artist worn and weary  Wrought with labour manifold That the king might drink his nectar  From a goblet made of gold.
On the prince's groaning table  Mid the silver gleaming bright Mirroring the happy faces  Giving back the flaming light, Shine the cups of priceless crystal  Chased with many a lovely line, Glowing now with warmer colour,  Crimsoned by the ruby wine.
In a valley sweet with sunlight,  Fertile with the dew and rain, Without miner's daily labour,  Without artist's nightly pain, There there grows the cup I drink from,  Summer's sweetness in it stored, And my lips pronounce a blessing  As they touch an old brown gourd.
Why, the miracle at Cana  In the land of Galilee, Tho' it puzzles all the scholars,  Is no longer strange to me. For the poorest and the humblest  Could a priceless wine afford, If they 'd only dip up water  With a sunlight-seasoned gourd.
So a health to my old comrade,  And a song of praise to sing When he rests inviting kisses  In his place beside the spring. Give the king his golden goblets,  Give the prince his crystal hoard; But for me the sparkling water  From a brown and brimming gourd!
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lawyers' Ways

THE LAWYERS' WAYS
I 've been list'nin' to them lawyers  In the court house up the street, An' I 've come to the conclusion  That I'm most completely beat. Fust one feller riz to argy,  An' he boldly waded in As he dressed the tremblin' pris'ner  In a coat o' deep-dyed sin.
Why, he painted him all over  In a hue o' blackest crime, An' he smeared his reputation  With the thickest kind o' grime, Tell I found myself a-wond'rin',  In a misty way and dim, How the Lord had come to fashion  Sich an awful man as him.
Then the other lawyer started,  An' with brimmin', tearful eyes, Said his client was a martyr  That was brought to sacrifice. An' he give to that same pris'ner  Every blessed human grace, Tell I saw the light o' virtue  Fairly shinin' from his face.
Then I own 'at I was puzzled  How sich things could rightly be; An' this aggervatin' question  Seems to keep a-puzzlin' me. So, will some one please inform me,  An' this mystery unroll— How an angel an' a devil  Can persess the self-same soul?
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lapse

THE LAPSE
This poem must be done to-day;  Then, I 'll e'en to it. I must not dream my time away,—  I 'm sure to rue it. The day is rather bright, I know  The Muse will pardon My half-defection, if I go  Into the garden. It must be better working there,—  I 'm sure it's sweeter: And something in the balmy air  May clear my metre.
 [In the Garden.]
Ah this is noble, what a sky!  What breezes blowing! The very clouds, I know not why,  Call one to rowing. The stream will be a paradise  To-day, I 'll warrant. I know the tide that's on the rise  Will seem a torrent; I know just how the leafy boughs  Are all a-quiver; I know how many skiffs and scows  Are on the river. I think I 'll just go out awhile  Before I write it; When Nature shows us such a smile,  We should n't slight it. For Nature always makes desire  By giving pleasure; And so 't will help me put more fire  Into my measure.
 [On the River.]
The river's fine, I 'm glad I came,  That poem 's teasing; But health is better far than fame,  Though cheques are pleasing. I don't know what I did it for,—  This air 's a poppy. I 'm sorry for my editor,—  He 'll get no copy!
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Haunted Oak

Pray why are you so bare, so bare,  Oh, bough of the old oak-tree; And why, when I go through the shade you throw,  Runs a shudder over me?
My leaves were green as the best, I trow,  And sap ran free in my veins, But I saw in the moonlight dim and weird  A guiltless victim's pains.
I bent me down to hear his sigh;  I shook with his gurgling moan, And I trembled sore when they rode away,  And left him here alone.
They'd charged him with the old, old crime,  And set him fast in jail: Oh, why does the dog howl all night long,  And why does the night wind wail?
He prayed his prayer and he swore his oath,  And he raised his hand to the sky; But the beat of hoofs smote on his ear,  And the steady tread drew nigh.
Who is it rides by night, by night,  Over the moonlit road? And what is the spur that keeps the pace,  What is the galling goad?
And now they beat at the prison door,  "Ho, keeper, do not stay! We are friends of him whom you hold within,  And we fain would take him away
"From those who ride fast on our heels  With mind to do him wrong; They have no care for his innocence,  And the rope they bear is long."
They have fooled the jailer with lying words,  They have fooled the man with lies; The bolts unbar, the locks are drawn,  And the great door open flies.
Now they have taken him from the jail,  And hard and fast they ride, And the leader laughs low down in his throat,  As they halt my trunk beside.
Oh, the judge, he wore a mask of black,  And the doctor one of white, And the minister, with his oldest son,  Was curiously bedight.
Oh, foolish man, why weep you now?  'Tis but a little space, And the time will come when these shall dread  The mem'ry of your face.
I feel the rope against my bark,  And the weight of him in my grain, I feel in the throe of his final woe  The touch of my own last pain.
And never more shall leaves come forth  On the bough that bears the ban; I am burned with dread, I am dried and dead,  From the curse of a guiltless man.
And ever the judge rides by, rides by,  And goes to hunt the deer, And ever another rides his soul  In the guise of a mortal fear.
And ever the man he rides me hard,  And never a night stays he; For I feel his curse as a haunted bough,  On the trunk of a haunted tree.
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# The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The King Is Dead

THE KING IS DEAD
Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! His life is lived—fulfilled his destiny. Have you for him no sad, regretful tear To drop beside the cold, unfollowed bier? Can you not pay the tribute of a sigh?
Was he not kind to you, this dead old year? Did he not give enough of earthly store? Enough of love, and laughter, and good cheer? Have not the skies you scanned sometimes been clear? How, then, of him who dies, could you ask more?
It is not well to hate him for the pain He brought you, and the sorrows manifold. To pardon him these hurts still I am fain; For in the panting period of his reign, He brought me new wounds, but he healed the old.
One little sigh for thee, my poor, dead friend— One little sigh while my companions sing. Thou art so soon forgotten in the end; We cry e'en as thy footsteps downward tend: "The king is dead! long live the king!"
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# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 77

PLATE 77
Pterygotus buffaloensis Pohlmann Page 358 See plates 57, 67, 68; 72–76, 78–80
| 1 | Interior view of carapace showing very distinctly the facettae of the lateral or compound eyes [see fig. 2]; also the ornamentation of the coxal joint. Natural size |
| 2 | Enlargement (× 3) of one of the eyes |
| 3 | Pincers of chelicera. Original of text figure 1425 in Zittel-Eastman's Textbook of Paleontology. Natural size |
| 4 | Another pair of pincers or chelae showing a complete fixed chela. Natural size |
| 5 | Telson; of type of "P. acuticaudatus" Pohlman. Natural size |
Pterygotus cobbi Hall Page 371
| 6 | Free pincer or chela of chelicera. Cotype of P. cummingsi Grote & Pitt [fig. p. 301, Am. Ass'n Adv. Sei. Proc., v. 26, 1878]. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Buffalo, N. Y. |
All figures are from photographs.
The originals of figures 1–3 and 5 are in the State Museum, those of figures 4 and 6 in the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 77. |
| J.A.Glenn phot. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 80

PLATE 80
Pterygotus buffaloensis Pohlmann Page 358 See plates 57, 67, 68; 72–79
| 1 | Enlargement (× 3) of segments to show the pore system of the integument [see p. 29], seen in front of the posterior margins. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Buffalo, N. Y. |
Photograph, the original of which is in the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (no. 100)
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 80. |
| J.A.Glenn phot. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 84

PLATE 84
Eusarcus longiceps nov. Page 257
| 1 | Carapace of young specimen showing outline and position of lateral eyes. Natural size |
| 2 | Carapace of young specimen with traces of ornamentation |
| 3 | Well preserved specimen, showing marginal border and outline of ventral side (as darker rim). Probably somewhat compressed in posterior part. Natural size |
| 4 | Largest carapace observed. The lateral margin is partly folded under and the specimen appears therefore too narrow. The lateral eyes and ocelli are well preserved in the specimen; the former are somewhat displaced by the folding. Natural size |
| 5 | Carapace and preabdomen; the former apparently retaining the original outline. Type. The preabdomen is imperfect. Natural size |
| 6 | Large carapace with the marginal shield of the ventral side thrown outward in the posterior part. Natural size |
Eusarcus triangulatus nov. Page 258
| 7 | Largest and most perfect carapace observed, apparently but little distorted and retaining the first tergite. Type. Natural size |
| 8 | Small carapace with fragment of first tergite. × 2 |
| 9 | Carapace and preabdomen much distorted, but showing their great width. The swimming leg is too indistinct for accurate figuring. Natural size |
Disjecta membra referable to Eusarcus
| 10 | Metastoma, possibly belonging to Eusarcus longiceps. × 2 |
| 11, 12 | Metastomas, possibly belonging to Eusarcus triangulatus. Natural size |
| 13–16 | Patches of integument exquisitely retaining the ornamentation. The latter exhibits considerable variation, recalling the ornamentation of Eusarcus and Echinognathus. Figure 13, × 4; figure 14, × 5; figure 15, × 2; figure 16, × 5 |
| 17 | Portion of abdomen, comparable in outline to that of a Eusarcus. Natural size |
| 18 | Postabdominal segment, recalling that of a Eusarcus. Natural size |
| 19, 20 | Spines of endognathites, belonging to this genus, or to Echinognathus or Stylonurus. Natural size Horizon and locality. Lower Siluric: Schenectady shale. The originals of figures 1–7, 10, 11, 13–16, 18–20 are from the Dettbarn quarry at Schenectady, those of figures 8, 9 from Duanesburg, that of figure 12 from Rotterdam Junction and that of figure 17 from Aqueduct, all in Schenectady county. All originals are in the State Museum |
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 84. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 81

PLATE 81
Pterygotus (Erettopterus) grandis (Pohlmann) Page 370
| 1 | Pygidium (holotype). Type of Ceratiocaris grandis Pohlman Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Buffalo, N. Y. |
The original is in the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 81. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 82

PLATE 82
Pterygotus (Erettopterus) globiceps nov. Page 374
| 1 | Nepionic stage showing the enormous size of the lateral eyes, the position of the ocelli and the small number of segments. × 30 |
| 2 | Another larval specimen showing slightly different form of carapace, thickened rim of eyes and small number of segments of tapering abdomen. × 30 |
| 3 | An older (neanic) stage in which the abdomen has assumed the proportion and composition of the adult stage. A broad thickened rim surrounds the eyes. × 12 |
| 4 | Carapace of a young individual showing somewhat different characters, apparently due to compression in longitudinal direction. × 15 |
| 5 | Fragment of carapace of young individual, showing the smooth cornea of the eyes partly separated from the facettae. × 5 |
| 6 | Well preserved carapace. Type of the species. × 3 |
| 7 | Largest carapace observed. Shows the lateral eye, somewhat distorted by oblique compression (indicated by the wrinkles) and the ocelli. On the antelateral corner a fragment of the marginal shield of the ventral side with traces of ornamentation is seen. Natural size |
| 8 | Tergite showing antero-lateral lobes and ornamentation. × 3 |
| 9 | Second sternite with genital appendage of young female. × 3 |
| 10 | Swimming leg. Natural size |
Pterygotus (Erettopterus) sp.
| 11 | Portion of a telson showing fine bristles on the margin. Natural size |
| 12 | Telson of young individual. × 3 |
The figures 8, 10, 11 are referred with doubt to this species.
Pterygotus? sp.
| 13 | Problematical fossil, possibly the female genital appendage of a Pterygotus [cf. similar appendage of Pterygotus anglicus, Huxley and Salter, pl. 3, fig. 4, 5, 7]. Horizon and locality. Shawangunk grit. Otisville, N. Y. |
The originals are the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 82. |
| G.S.B. et E.W.C.L. del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 8

PLATE 8
Eurypterus remipes Dekay Page 161 See plates 2–7
| 1 | Nearly complete operculum. Shows the form of the plate, the female genital appendages, lacking the paired terminal pieces. The pentagonal plates in front of the genital lobes are faintly outlined and the two interior tubular appendages are very distinctly shown as curved dark lines. × 2 |
| 2 | Detached tergite. Shows outline and sculpturing. × 2 Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Jerusalem hill, N. Y. |
| 3 | Posterior sternite, showing the "ears" or antelateral processes, the median suture and transverse sculpture line. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Cranes Corners, N. Y. |
| 4 | Second sternite of a female, the appendage broken out, save the basal portion. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Jerusalem hill, N. Y. |
| 5 | Dorsal view of two postabdominal segments. Shows anterior transverse row of scales and two median lines of larger scales, and the lateral epimera with their thickened edges and posterior lobes. × 2 Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Cedarville, N. Y. |
| 6 | Telson, seen from underside and showing the median carina and marginal serration. × 2 Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Cranes Corners, N. Y. |
| 7 | Last postabdominal segment and telson, seen from dorsal side, showing articulation of telson and posterior doublure of the segment. The margin of the segment and the lateral margin of the anterior portion of the telson show distinct rows of pores, presumably the sockets of bristles Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Jerusalem hill, N. Y. |
All are from photographs of originals in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 8. |
| J.A.Glenn phot. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 83

PLATE 83
Eurypterus? (Dolichopterus?) stellatus nov. Page 211 Plates 83–87. Schenectady shale fauna
| 1 | Carapace, retaining the ornamentation and an ocular node. × 2. Type of species |
| 2, | 3 Patches of integument with ornamentation, apparently referable to this species. × 3 |
| 4 | Tergite with traces of ornamentation, probably belonging to this species. × 2 |
Eurypterus pristinus nov. Page 207
| 5 | Carapace. Type. × 2 |
| 6 | Patch of integument with ornamentation resembling somewhat that of the type specimen. × 10 |
Eurypterus megalops nov. Page 191
| 7 | Carapace. Type. Natural size |
Eurypterus? sp.
| 8 | Leg segment, probably belonging to this genus. × 3 |
Dolichopterus frankfortensis nov. Page 268
| 9 | Small, fairly perfect carapace. Shows apparent traces of ornamentation. × 3 |
| 10 | Carapace, obliquely shoved out of shape, but well preserving the ornamentation and the lateral eyes. Natural size |
| 11 | Small carapace, with original outline and well preserved, prominent lateral eyes and marginal border. Type. × 2 |
| 12 | Carapace with slightly differing outline and indication of the ocellar mound. Natural size |
| 13 | A larger carapace and two tergites. The carapace is somewhat laterally compressed and therefore appears relatively too long. |
| 14 | Largest carapace preserved. Shows distinctly semi-circular form of eye nodes, and frontal margin and beveled border |
Dolichopterus latifrons Page 269
| 15 | Carapace showing the marginal border and lateral eyes. Natural size |
| 16 | Carapace, apparently retaining the natural outline. Type. × 2 Horizon and locality. All originals are from the Lower Siluric Schenectady shale. Those of figures 1–6, 8–10, 15 and 16 are from the Dettbarn quarry at Schenectady, those of figures 7, 11, from Rotterdam Junction, of figures 12, 13, from Duanesburg and that of figure 14 from Delanson, all in Schenectady county. All originals are in the State |
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 83. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |