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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNRISE IN THE HILLS OF SATSUMA, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA
First Line: The day unfolds like a lotus bloom
Last Line: Day has begun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil
First Line: The day unfolds like a lotus bloom
Last Line: Day has begun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil
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.
Down bamboo-stalks the sunbeams slide,
Darting like glittering elves at play,
To the thin arched grass where crickets hide
And sing all day.
The old crows caw from the camphor boughs,
They have builded there for a thousand years;
Their nestlings stir in a huddled drowse
To pipe shrill fears.
A white fox creeps to his home in the hill,
A small gray ape peers up at the sun;
Crickets and sunbeams are quarrelling still;
Day has begun.
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