“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1 (1917).
“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.
And over all her loveliness, the grace
Of Morning blushing in the early skies.”
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
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