Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN



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First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead
Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War


HARK, the new year succeeds the dead,
The bells make haste, the news is spread;
And day by day
"Farther away,"
"Farther away" tolls through my head.

Here slinking Slyness rules the roost
And brags and pimps, as he was used
Before the day
Now far away
Saw him to's puny self reduced.

And Quarrel with her hissing tongue
And hen's eye gobbles gross along
To snap that prey
That marched away
To save her carcass, better hung.

Come, infant Hour, though much I fear
Thy bright will shew more blackly clear
How day by day
Far fade away
The heights which crowned a deadlier year.





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