The Rising Sun
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
The king of day rides on,
To give the placid morning birth;
On wheels of glory moves his throne,
Whose light adorns the earth.
When once his limpid maid
Has the imperial course begun,
The lark deserts the dusky glade,
And soars to meet the sun.
Up from the orient deep,
Aurora mounts without delay,
With brooms of light the plains to sweep,
And purge the gloom away.
Ye ghostly scenes give way,
Our king is coming now in sight,
Bearing the diadem of day,
Whose crest expels the night.
Thus we, like birds, retreat
To groves, and hide from ev'ry eye;
Our slumb'ring dust will rise and meet
Its morning in the sky.
The immaterial sun,
Now hid within empyreal gloom,
Will break forth on a brighter throne,
And call us from the tomb.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABA CDCD EFEF FGFG HIHI DJBJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 137 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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