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THE OLD YEAR by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE MOON WAS GOING DOWN; THE EMPTY TREES SHOOK, SIGHING
Last Line: REMAINING.
Subject(s): HOLIDAYS; NEW YEAR; TIME;
The moon was going down; the empty trees shook, sighing,
The frost breath in the grasses sere
Made joyless anthem; one more year
Was dying.

Abroad a smuggled light, a luckless light was waning
Over the houses hushed, and I
Stood numbed, with neither love nor sigh
Remaining.



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