I am glad daylong for the gift of song,
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end things
Which hang on the edge of tomorrow.
Source: Rhapsody.
-- William Stanley Braithwaite, (Dec 6 1878-1962), US educator, poet, critic; He was one of the first to articulate the canonical works of black letters; taught for more than two decades at Atlanta University.