Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DAWN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER



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First Line: The sun rends the long veils of smoke, and the fogs
Last Line: Along the track of ancient unreality.
Subject(s): Dawn; London; Sunrise


THE sun rends the long veils of smoke, and the fogs
Of night shift and vanish in upper air:
While the eternal huddle of chimneys now
To the light pour forth their praise from yawning mouths.
Blackened with grief, blistered with lust of life,
Unconquerable and unconquered, they cast their spell:
Crowding with vague forms the infinite emptiness
Of the pale seas of air that stretch out from dawn to dark.
Now man awakes to another day, to a life
That has forgotten its past, -- that must forget all days to come.
Until the incontrollable impulse is exhausted,
Until no more feet sound, no more voices shake with desire,
Towards the illusion circle-wise he treads
Along the track of ancient unreality.





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