Paul Laurence Dunbar

“ 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.
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”