Forever

Read 'Forever' by 'Paul Laurence Dunbar' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Forever by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I had not known before
Forever was so long a word.
The slow stroke of the clock of time
I had not heard.
'Tis hard to learn so late;
It seems no sad heart really learns,
But hopes and trusts and doubts and fears,
[Pg 241]And bleeds and burns.
The night is not all dark,
Nor is the day all it seems,
But each may bring me this relief—
My dreams and dreams.
I had not known before
That Never was so sad a word,
So wrap me in forgetfulness—
I have not heard.

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