Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, 1914, by FRANK WILMOT


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1914, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sparrow has gone home into the tree
Last Line: But pity to the hearts of men no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): World War I; First World War


THE sparrow has gone home into the tree;
And the belled cattle, vague and pensive-eyed,
Drowse in the twilight, to the red cliffside
Comes but a faded murmur of the sea.
Comes down the night; comes down reluctantly
The mist upon the hill whence soon shall glide
A pale and bashful moon; with arms spread wide
Affrighted pixies seek the dark from me.

These shall return: the mountains and the haze,
The blue lobelias ledging all the lawns,
The pixies, the lost roads and the sun-blaze,
These waters surge to-morrow to this shore --
All these things shall return with other dawns
But pity to the hearts of men no more.





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