Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEAD: 2, by DAVID MORTON


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First Line: All souls' night! Forth from their dwelling places
Last Line: For finding remembered and remembering faces.
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death; All Hallows Night; Dead, The


II

All Souls' Night! Forth from their dwelling places
They cross the aching and uneasy night,
Seeking old doors and dear remembered faces,
Peering unseen in windows where a light
Falls on some book they loved or on some chair
Where they had rested many a night ago;
And well for them if one dear face be there
Whose unforgetting eyes they knew -- and know.
Ah, well for them if in the quiet speech
That passes round the low-burned candle flame,
Some old familiar tale the listeners reach,
And silence fall about a spoken name. --
Better their sleep in those dim dwelling places,
For finding remembered and remembering faces.





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