Paul Laurence Dunbar:
(Dayton, 27 June 1872 – there, 9 February 1906).
American author.

October is the treasure of the year, and all the months pay bounty to her store.

When August days are hot and dry, I won’t sit by and sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.

Oh it was sweet to think that May should be ours again, hoping it not, I shrink out of the sight of men.
