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THE SILENT VOICES by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THE DUMB HOUR, CLOTHED IN BLACK
Last Line: ON, AND ALWAYS ON!
Subject(s): GHOSTS; SUPERNATURAL;

WHEN the dumb Hour, clothed in black,
Brings the Dreams about my bed,
Call me not so often back,
Silent Voices of the dead,
Toward the lowland ways behind me,
And the sunlight that is gone!
Call me rather, silent voices,
Forward to the starry track
Glimmering up the heights beyond me
On, and always on!





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