{"id":462,"date":"2021-06-21T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=462"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:33:05","slug":"when-dawn-comes-to-the-city-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/when-dawn-comes-to-the-city-2\/","title":{"raw":"When Dawn Comes to the City","rendered":"When Dawn Comes to the City"},"content":{"raw":"The tired cars go grumbling by,\r\nThe moaning, groaning cars,\r\nAnd the old milk carts go rumbling by\r\nUnder the same dull stars.\r\nOut of the tenements, cold as stone,\r\nDark figures start for work;\r\nI watch them sadly shuffle on,\r\n\u2018Tis dawn, dawn in New York.\r\n\r\nBut I would be on the island of the sea,\r\nIn the heart of the island of the sea,\r\nWhere the cocks are crowing, crowing, crowing,\r\nAnd the hens are cackling in the rose-apple tree,\r\nWhere the old draft-horse is neighing, neighing, neighing\r\nOut on the brown dew-silvered lawn,\r\nAnd the tethered cow is lowing, lowing, lowing,\r\nAnd dear old Ned is braying, braying, braying,\r\nAnd the shaggy Nannie goat is calling, calling, calling\r\nFrom her little trampled corner of the long wide lea\r\nThat stretches to the waters of the hill-stream falling\r\nSheer upon the flat rocks joyously!\r\nThere, oh there! on the island of the sea,\r\nThere I would be at dawn.\r\n\r\nThe tired cars go grumbling by,\r\nThe crazy, lazy cars,\r\nAnd the same milk carts go rumbling by\r\nUnder the dying stars.\r\nA lonely newsboy hurries by,\r\nHumming a recent ditty;\r\nRed streaks strike through the gray of the sky,\r\nThe dawn comes to the city.\r\n\r\nBut I would be on the island of the sea,\r\nIn the heart of the island of the sea,\r\nWhere the cocks are crowing, crowing, crowing,\r\nAnd the hens are cackling in the rose-apple tree,\r\nWhere the old draft-horse is neighing, neighing, neighing\r\nOut on the brown dew-silvered lawn,\r\nAnd the tethered cow is lowing, lowing, lowing,\r\nAnd dear old Ned is braying, braying, braying,\r\nAnd the shaggy Nannie goat is calling, calling, calling\r\nFrom her little trampled corner of the long wide lea\r\nThat stretches to the waters of the hill-stream falling\r\nSheer upon the flat rocks joyously!\r\nThere, oh there! on the island of the sea,\r\nThere I would be at dawn.","rendered":"<p>The tired cars go grumbling by,<br \/>\nThe moaning, groaning cars,<br \/>\nAnd the old milk carts go rumbling by<br \/>\nUnder the same dull stars.<br \/>\nOut of the tenements, cold as stone,<br \/>\nDark figures start for work;<br \/>\nI watch them sadly shuffle on,<br \/>\n\u2018Tis dawn, dawn in New York.<\/p>\n<p>But I would be on the island of the sea,<br \/>\nIn the heart of the island of the sea,<br \/>\nWhere the cocks are crowing, crowing, crowing,<br \/>\nAnd the hens are cackling in the rose-apple tree,<br \/>\nWhere the old draft-horse is neighing, neighing, neighing<br \/>\nOut on the brown dew-silvered lawn,<br \/>\nAnd the tethered cow is lowing, lowing, lowing,<br \/>\nAnd dear old Ned is braying, braying, braying,<br \/>\nAnd the shaggy Nannie goat is calling, calling, calling<br \/>\nFrom her little trampled corner of the long wide lea<br \/>\nThat stretches to the waters of the hill-stream falling<br \/>\nSheer upon the flat rocks joyously!<br \/>\nThere, oh there! on the island of the sea,<br \/>\nThere I would be at dawn.<\/p>\n<p>The tired cars go grumbling by,<br \/>\nThe crazy, lazy cars,<br \/>\nAnd the same milk carts go rumbling by<br \/>\nUnder the dying stars.<br \/>\nA lonely newsboy hurries by,<br \/>\nHumming a recent ditty;<br \/>\nRed streaks strike through the gray of the sky,<br \/>\nThe dawn comes to the city.<\/p>\n<p>But I would be on the island of the sea,<br \/>\nIn the heart of the island of the sea,<br \/>\nWhere the cocks are crowing, crowing, crowing,<br \/>\nAnd the hens are cackling in the rose-apple tree,<br \/>\nWhere the old draft-horse is neighing, neighing, neighing<br \/>\nOut on the brown dew-silvered lawn,<br \/>\nAnd the tethered cow is lowing, lowing, lowing,<br \/>\nAnd dear old Ned is braying, braying, braying,<br \/>\nAnd the shaggy Nannie goat is calling, calling, calling<br \/>\nFrom her little trampled corner of the long wide lea<br \/>\nThat stretches to the waters of the hill-stream falling<br \/>\nSheer upon the flat rocks joyously!<br \/>\nThere, oh there! 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