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LEAVETAKING by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: PASS, THOU WILD LIGHT
Last Line: PASS THOU AWAY.
Subject(s): AGING;
PASS, thou wild light,
Wild light on peaks that so
Grieve to let go
The day.
Lovely thy tarrying, lovely too is night:
Pass thou away.

Pass, thou wild heart,
Wild heart of youth that still
Hast half a will
To stay.
I grow too old a comrade, let us part.
Pass thou away.


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