2000
Dawn
Composed by 
Tom Cipullo
Tom Cipullo Text by 
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar Climbing: Poems by African-Americans Song Collection
"Dawn" is the seventh and final song of Tom Cipullo's song cycle Climbing: 7 Songs on 8 Poems by African-Americans.
Text
Dawn
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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.
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