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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON
First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death
Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War
First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death
Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War
The hour of dawn is the hour of death—
I know by the gas in the morning's breath;
I know by the cannon's racking scream,
By the rifle's click, by the bayonet's gleam;
I know by our crouching, hushed platoon
That the word is neat, that the hour is soon
When we'll leap to the top with the shibboleth—
"The hour of dawn is the hour of death!"
The hour of dawn is the hour of life!
A new world springs from a world of strife!
A world uncursed by autocracy's brood;
A world of beauty and brotherhood;
A world made true to a holy plan—
The reign of love, the rule of Man!
It is hate and lust and war we knife—
The hour of dawn is the hour of life!
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