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NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 9. A MAD MAID'S SONG by GORDON BOTTOMLEY

First Line: THE DAY HAD A SUNLESS DAWNING
Last Line: FIND SWEETNESS IN DEATH'S PEACE.

THE day had a sunless dawning,
The lark forgot to sing --
Is this the lark that creeps in the grass
With a trailing wounded wing?

My tears with the rain are mingled:
Of rain and tears I am fain,
For I and all the other flowers
Are sweetest after rain.

The day has a sunless ending;
The rain will never cease;
The other flowers, weary and wrecked,
Find sweetness in death's peace.



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