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Rise and Shine



Brilliant sunlight pokes at my eyes

refusing to let me sleep

Starbursts dance under my lids

I'm so tired I could weep

Morning rays keep up their barrage

Pounding reveille into my brain

Oh, just let me go back to sleep

I pray for gray skies and rain

No such fate for the working weary

Songbirds join in my wakeup call

I slowly rouse to rise and shine

There's no hope for shut-eye at all

The early bird catches the worm

Who phrased that sweet little story?

And oh that I might chance to meet

whoever named the morning glory.