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Dawn

September 13, 2012 Larkrise
Above the Clouds at Sunrise. Frederic Edwin Church. 1849.

 

Dawn

Paul Laurence Dunbar

 

An angel, robed in spotless white,

Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.

Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.

Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.

Frederic Edwin ChurchPaul Laurence Dunbar

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