| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1645. Sunrise in the Hills of Satsuma |
| | | By Mary McNeil Fenollosa |
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| THE DAY unfolds like a lotus bloom, | |
| Pink at the tip and gold at the core, | |
| Rising up swiftly through waters of gloom | |
| That lave night’s shore. | |
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| Down bamboo-stalks the sunbeams slide, | 5 |
| Darting like glittering elves at play, | |
| To the thin arched grass where crickets hide | |
| And sing all day. | |
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| The old crows caw from the camphor boughs, | |
| They have builded there for a thousand years; | 10 |
| Their nestlings stir in a huddled drowse | |
| To pipe shrill fears. | |
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| A white fox creeps to his come in the hill, | |
| A small gray ape peers up at the sun; | |
| Crickets and sunbeams are quarrelling still; | 15 |
| Day has begun. | |
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