Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MARCH DAY, 1941, by JOYCE GRENFELL


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First Line: Taut as a tent the heavenly dome is blue
Last Line: It will go on as it has done before.
Subject(s): March (month); Nature


Taut as a tent the heavenly dome is blue,
Uncrossed by cloud or tossing twig or 'plane,
A measureless span infinitely new
To fill the eye and soar the heart again.
Deep in the wintered earth the shock is felt:
Glossy sweet aconite has shown her gold
And string straight crocus spears, where late we knelt
To lodge their bulbs, are waiting to unfold.
The ragged rooks like tea-leaves in the sky
Straggle towards the earth with awkward grace;
A robin in a silver birch nearby
Thrusts up his carol through the naked lace.
I've known this day for thirty years and more;
It will go on as it has done before.





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