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DAY AND NIGHT by RUPERT BROOKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THROUGH MY HEART'S PALACE THOUGHTS UNNUMBERED THRONG
Last Line: YOU, LIKE A QUEEN, PASS OUT INTO THE NIGHT.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng;
And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise,
High-throned you sit, and gracious. All day long
Great Hopes gold-armoured, jester Fantasies When the high
session of the day is ended,
And darkness comes; then, with the waning light,
By lilied maidens on your way attended,
Proud from the wonted throne, superbly swaying,
You, like a queen, pass out into the night.






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