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What If Johnny Cash Recorded a Forgotten Poem in Hollywood? | “Before the Dawn” (1878)

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Found on a lost Hollywood tape.
What if Johnny Cash had recorded a forgotten 19th-century poem on a soundstage before sunrise?
This is “Before the Dawn” — the first chapter of “Sunrise” by Sidney Lanier (1878), reimagined as a southern soul performance filmed in Hollywood, 1978.
Lanier wrote “Sunrise” while dying of tuberculosis — his final prayer to light, faith, and freedom.
Now it lives again, as if Cash himself sang these words in a dim studio, before the cameras rolled, before the day began.

???? Part 1 of 5 from the “Sunrise Suite” — new chapters released daily.
Next: “Awakening and Reverence” — The Morning Gospel Ballad.
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Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash, Sidney Lanier, Sunrise poem
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