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SILENCE by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

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First Line: SINCE I LOST YOU, I AM SILENCE-HAUNTED
Last Line: DOWN THE NOISE OF MEN.
Subject(s): SILENCE;
SINCE I lost you I am silence-haunted,
Sounds wave their little wings
A moment, then in weariness settle
On the flood that soundless swings.

Whether the people in the street
Like pattering ripples go by,
Or whether the theatre sighs and sighs
With a loud, hoarse sigh:

Or the wind shakes a ravel of light
Over the dead-black river,
Or night's last echoing
Makes the daybreak shiver:

I feel the silence waiting
To sip them all up again
In its vast completeness drinking
Down the noise of men.





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