Changing Time

Changing Time by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

            CHANGING TIME
The cloud looked in at the window,
  And said to the day, "Be dark!"
And the roguish rain tapped hard on the pane,
  To stifle the song of the lark.

The wind sprang up in the tree tops
  And shrieked with a voice of death,
But the rough-voiced breeze, that shook the trees,
  Was touched with a violet's breath.

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