Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DAWN WINDS, by VERA NICOLSON


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First Line: The valley lies in shadow - all silver grey with dew
Last Line: For they hear the glad reveille that the dawn winds blow.
Subject(s): Dawn; Wind; Sunrise


THE valley lies in shadow—all silver grey with dew,
The daisies dream and tearful are the violets' eyes of blue,—
But up from the east the trailing purple clouds of night are going,
And all about the hilltop the dawn winds are blowing.

They come from where, in an opal haze, the ocean meets the sky—
Where the great green rollers surge and sink and the white-winged Kittiwakes
fly—
Round the rocky headlands and across the shimmering bay—
Where they stoop to greet the baby waves and kiss them into spray.

The terns rise from the shingle in a flashing silver cloud,
And thro' the caves the oyster-catcher's piping echoes loud,
Among the scattered boulders where the bracken fronds grow tall
The seapinks nod and waken at the whistling breezes' call.

They dance with the flickering shadows that lie on the sunlit grass,
And the purple thyme on the hillside breathes welcome as they pass;
Above the heather the lapwings are flitting to and fro,
For they hear the glad reveille that the dawn winds blow.





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