Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DAWN INVADERS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY


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THE DAWN INVADERS, by                    
First Line: Unbroken slumbers through the night
Last Line: He has to get up anyhow.
Subject(s): Dawn; Guests; Sunrise; Visiting


Unbroken slumbers through the night
The hours of weary toil requite.
The father's deep sonorous snores,
Break like the surf on dreamland's shores.
The mother's gentler snores attest
The soothing power of pleasant rest.

Along the narrow driveway's slope,
The motors roar with cut-out ope.
Just ere the rising of the sun
The children come home one by one.
The daughter with her beau is there
And eke the early morning heir.
And, one by one, intent upon
Themselves, the others follow on,
With riotous "good night's" anon.

Nor is the family mansion still
From noises echoing and shrill,
Until the father with a grouch
Springs up from off his downy couch,
Lifting his angry voice at last.
When all disturbances are past
And he can pillow furrowed brow,
He has to get up anyhow.





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