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THE ROOKERY AT SUNRISE by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: THE LOFTY ELM-TREES DARKLY DREAM
Last Line: IN ONE BLACK PHALANX TOWARDS THE DAY.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; DAWN; ELM TREES; SUNRISE;

The lofty elm-trees darkly dream
Against the steel-blue sky; till far
I' the twilit east a golden star
O'erbrims the dusk in one vast stream
Of yellow light, and lo! a cry
Breaks from the windy nest -- the sky

Is filled with wheeling rooks -- they sway
In one black phalanx towards the day.



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