The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Death

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211821The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar — DeathPaul Laurence Dunbar

DEATH

Storm and strife and stress,
Lost in a wilderness,
Groping to find a way,
Forth to the haunts of day

Sudden a vista peeps,
Out of the tangled deeps,
Only a point—the ray
But at the end is day.

Dark is the dawn and chill,
Daylight is on the hill,
Night is the flitting breath,
Day rides the hills of death.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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