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THE POET'S SONG by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE RAIN HAD FALLEN, THE POET AROSE
Last Line: WHEN THE YEARS HAVE DIED AWAY.'
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
THE rain had fallen, the Poet arose,
He pass'd by the town and out of the street;
A light wind blew from the gates of the sun,
And waves of shadow went over the wheat;
And he sat him down in a lonely place,
And chanted a melody loud and sweet,
That made the wild-swan pause in her cloud,
And the lark drop down at his feet.

The swallow stopt as he hunted the fly,
The snake slipt under a spray,
The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak,
And stared, with his foot on the prey;
And the nightingale thought, 'I have sung many songs,
But never a one so gay,
For he sings of what the world will be
When the years have died away.'





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