Quote#Nature
It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and…
Quote byPaul Laurence Dunbar · 1872–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Representative American Negroes, an essay from The Negro Problem, a collection of essays written in 1903 by leading African Americans..
English (original)
It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness a bird is singing to the Dawn.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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You are sweet, O Love, dear Love, You are soft as the nesting dove. Come to my heart and bring it rest As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.
Because you love me I have much achieved, Had you despised me then I must have failed, But since I knew you trusted and believed, I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
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.
The sunn must lend his goulden beames, Soft windes their breath, green trees their shade, Sweete fields their flowers, cleare springs their streams, Ere such another smyle bee made.
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er the waves dost fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice!
We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea, Dame Venus, love's lady, Was born of the sea.