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First Line: Pale patricians, sunk in self-indulgence
Last Line: Demos dawning, and the darkness done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Trumpets; Sunrise


Pale Patricians, sunk in self-indulgence,
Blink your bleared eyes. Behold the Sun --
Burst proclaim in purpurate effulgence,
Demos dawning, and the Darkness done!





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