Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
A Golden Day
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"I found you and I lost you,"
"I found you and I lost you,"
"‘Twixt a smile and a tear,"
"Out of the sunshine and out of the heat,"
"“Sunshine on de medders,"
A mother crab was teaching her young one how to walk when he told her to follow her own plan and show him. Why would he say that?
"Because you love me I have much achieved,"
"The gray dawn on the mountain top"
"Let me close the eyes of my soul"
"Outside the rain upon the street,"
"Silence, and whirling worlds afar"
"Because I had loved so deeply,"
"The draft of love was cool and sweet"
"What are the things that make life bright?"
"I did not know that life could be so sweet,"
"If thro’ the sea of night which here surrounds me,"
"I know a man, With face of tan,"
"My heart to thy heart,"
Portraits are to daily faces
"She wrapped her soul in a lace of lies,"
"The wind told the little leaves to hurry,"
"The rain streams down like harp–strings from the sky;"
"Tell your love where the roses blow,"
"‘Twas the apple that in Eden"
Words of sympathy are offered.
"I had not known before, Forever was so long a word."