Monday, February 09, 2015

Fitting Lines for Today

Sunshine on de medders,
Greenness on de way;
Dat’s de blessed reason
I sing all de day.
Look hyeah! Whut you axin’?
Whut meks me so merry?
‘Spect to see me sighin’
W’en hit ‘s wa’m in Febawary?
from ‘A Warm Day in Winter’ (in full here) by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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