George Moses Horton

Here you will find the Poem The Rising Sun of poet George Moses Horton

The Rising Sun

The king of day rides on, 
To give the placid morning birth; 
On wheels of glory moves his throne, 
Whose light adorns the earth. 

When once his limpid maid 
Has the imperial course begun, 
The lark deserts the dusky glade, 
And soars to meet the sun. 

Up from the orient deep, 
Aurora mounts without delay, 
With brooms of light the plains to sweep, 
And purge the gloom away. 

Ye ghostly scenes give way, 
Our king is coming now in sight, 
Bearing the diadem of day, 
Whose crest expels the night. 

Thus we, like birds, retreat 
To groves, and hide from ev'ry eye; 
Our slumb'ring dust will rise and meet 
Its morning in the sky. 

The immaterial sun, 
Now hid within empyreal gloom, 
Will break forth on a brighter throne, 
And call us from the tomb.