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THE PROPHET by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THE EAST LIGHTENS WITH STRANGE HINTS OF MORN
Last Line: SEEING THEE CROWNED, DO KNOW THAT DAY IS NEAR.
Subject(s): FUTURE;

WHEN the East lightens with strange hints of morn,
The first tinge of the growing glory takes
The cold crown of some husht high alp forlorn,
While yet o'er vales below the dark is spread.
Even so the dawning Age, in silence, breaks,
O solitary soul, on thy still head:
And we, that watch below with reverent fear,
Seeing thee crowned, do know that day is near.



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