Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ALARUM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON


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First Line: Stark to the skin, I crawled a knife-edged blade
Last Line: And heard the crazy clanging of a bell.


Stark to the skin, I crawled a knife-edged blade
Of melting ice above the pit of Hell,
Flame-licked and scorched; yet strangely undismayed,
Till on my ears a dizzy clamour fell,
And dropt me sheer ... and, wakening in my bed,
I saw the sky, beyond the chimneys red
And heard the crazy clanging of a bell.





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