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TESTO DEL LIED

"The Birth of Morn (Dawn)"
di Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

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.