Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRELUDE, by JOHN DRINKWATER



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First Line: Though black the night, I know upon the sky
Last Line: Of death shall come, the gospel of her light.
Subject(s): Morning


THOUGH black the night, I know upon the sky,
A little paler now, if clouds were none,
The stars would be. Husht now the thickets lie,
And now the birds are moving one by one, --
A note -- and now from bush to bush it goes --
A prelude -- now victorious light along
The west will come till every bramble glows
With wash of sunlit dew shaken in song.
Shaken in song; O heart, be ready now,
Cold in your night, be ready now to sing.
Dawn as it wakes the sleeping bird on bough
Shall summon you to instant reckoning, --
She is your dawn, O heart, -- sing, till the night
Of death shall come, the gospel of her light.




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