Nature
Day
Nature
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.
Cite this poem
MLA
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-laurence-dunbar/347/.
Chicago
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-laurence-dunbar/347/.
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