Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SIMULACRA, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN


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First Line: Dark in the west the sunset's sombre wrack
Last Line: The stormy story of the fall of troy.


DARK in the west the sunset's sombre wrack
Unrolled vast walls the rams of war had split,
Along whose battlements the battle lit
Tempestuous beacons; and, with gates hurled back,
A mighty city, red with ruin and sack,
Through burning breaches, crumbling bit by bit,
Showed where the God of Slaughter seemed to sit
With Conflagration glaring at each crack. --
Who knows? perhaps as sleep unto us makes
Our dreams as real as our waking seems
With recollections time can not destroy,
So in the mind of Nature now awakes,
Haply, some wilder memory, and she dreams
The stormy story of the fall of Troy.





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