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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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.

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From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar | Dodd, Mead And Company, 1922

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