Day
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Publication Information
Published in Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Henry Cowell, Day (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boy's chorus ad libitum, a cappella) (January 1950)
Gary Bachlund, Day (medium voice and piano) (January 2010)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Day" (1905). Dunbar Music Archive. 78.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/78
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Text
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.