The White Dawn is Stealing

 The white dawn is stealing above the dark cedar trees,
   The young corn is waving its blades in the morning breeze;
 The birds chant so lonely, the leaves softly moan above,
   The heart of me sighs, the heart of me sighs for love.

 My signal I flash where the spring's silver waters lie,
   My love-call I send on the winds that are floating by.
 Then come, oh, thy coming shall be as the dawn to me,
   The heart of me sighs, the heart of me sighs for thee.

by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

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by Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946) , "The White Dawn is Stealing", op. 45 no. 2, published 1909, from Four American Indian Songs, no. 2.

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