Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow/Day

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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DAY

THE gray dawn on the mountain top
 Is slow to pass away.
Still lays him by in sluggish dreams,
 The golden God of day.

And then a light along the hills,
 Your laughter silvery gay;
The Sun God wakes, a bluebird trills,
 You come and it is day.