A Golden Day

A Golden Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar

In the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

       A GOLDEN DAY

I found you and I lost you,
  All on a gleaming day.
The day was rilled with sunshine,
  And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
  Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
  And all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
  All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
  It is always brimming May.

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.