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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE MIDNIGHT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poet's Biography
First Line: A splash on the dusky water
Last Line: Crossing the great divide!
Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The
First Line: A splash on the dusky water
Last Line: Crossing the great divide!
Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The
ASPLASH on the dusky water,
A cry on the winter air,
As from the pit abyssmal
Rises a soul's despair.
The human ghouls of midnight
Shiver beneath the snow,
The painted women in terror
Stand, and listen, and — go.
Up in the deep of heaven,
Gloomy and ghostly grey,
The cry of the lost one falters —
Falters, and dies away.
Only a cry in the darkness,
Only a swirl in the tide,
Only a sinful woman
Crossing the Great Divide!
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