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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of McKay [1]

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Date: 2023-02-24  

When Dawn Comes to the City

by Claude McKay (1889-1948)

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The tired cars go grumbling by,

The crazy, lazy cars,

And the same milk carts go rumbling by

Under the dying stars.

A lonely newsboy hurries by,

Humming a recent ditty;

Red streaks strike through the gray of the sky,

The dawn comes to the city.

But I would be on the island of the sea,

In the heart of the island of the sea,

Where the cocks are crowing, crowing, crowing,

And the hens are cackling in the rose-apple tree,

Where the old draft-horse is neighing, neighing, neighing

Out on the brown dew-silvered lawn,

And the tethered cow is lowing, lowing, lowing,

And dear old Ned is braying, braying, braying,

And the shaggy Nannie goat is calling, calling, calling,

From her little trampled corner of the long wide lea

That stretches to the waters of the hill-stream falling

Sheer upon the flat rocks joyously!

There, oh, there! on the island of the sea,

There I would be at dawn.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on February 5, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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