Day

"Day" is a song from the song cycle "Songs of Love" by Lena McLin with text by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Date: 1987Composer: Lena J. McLinText: Paul Laurence DunbarSong Collection: Songs of Love

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    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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