A Golden Day

Authors

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Publication Information

Published in Lyrics on Sunshine and Shadow (1905)

Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin

Musical Settings

Gary Bachlund, A Golden Day (medium voice and piano) (January 2009)

Text

I found you and I lost you,
All on a gleaming day.
The day was filled with sunshine,
And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
And all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
It is always brimming May.

Recommended Citation

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "A Golden Day" (1905). Dunbar Music Archive. 9.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/9