Will H. Hendrickson, "Fame" (1905)
While all the earth was wrapped in sleep,
Then silently the glowing sun
Up o'er the eastern hills did creep;
And men did marvel at the shining threads
As looked they forth from out their easy beds.
His gems of thought the poet spun
While all the earth was wrapped in sleep,
And when next morn the glowing sun
Shone on the hills and the valleys deep;
Ah! men did marvel and praise his name,
And did send aloft his work on wings of fame.
Published in Colored American Magazine, September 1905