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Publication Information
Published in Majors and Minors (1895)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, An African Love Song (voice and piano) (January 1901)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, An African Love Song (high voice and piano) (January 1897)
Harry G. Bull, An African Love Song (voice and piano) (January 1954)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Song" (1895). Dunbar Music Archive. 58.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/58
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Text
My heart to thy heart,
My hand to thine;
My lip to thy lips,
Kisses are wine
Brewed for the lover in sunshine and shade;
Let me drink deep, then, my African maid.
Lily to lily,
Rose unto rose;
My love to thy love
Tenderly grows.
Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain,
Nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain.