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DARKNESS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

Poet Analysis

First Line: BUT THAT FROM SLOW DISSOLVING POMPS OF DAWN
Last Line: FOR THIS, O HUMAN BEINGS, MOURN WE MAY.

BUT that from slow dissolving pomps of dawn
No verity of slowly strengthening light
Early or late hath issued; that the day
Scarce-shown, relapses rather, self-withdrawn,
Back to the glooms of ante-natal night,
For this, O human beings, mourn we may.



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