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Lyrics of Love and Laughter Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God ! but the interest ! ON THE DEDICATION OF DOROTHY HALL. TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901. NOT to the midnight of the gloomy past, Do we revert to-day; we look upon The golden present and the future vast Whose vistas show us visions of the dawn. Nor shall the sorrows of departed years The sweetness of our tranquil souls annoy, The sunshine of our hopes dispels the tears, And clears our eyes to see this later joy. Not ever in the years that God hath given Have we gone friendless down the thorny way, Always the clouds of pregnant black were riven By flashes from His own eternal day. 142