Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NIGHT WIND, by F. G. HAGER



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NIGHT WIND, by                    
First Line: The darkness hides a hound upon a track
Last Line: And all night long the hound runs close behind.
Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime


The darkness hides a hound upon a track.
His bay resounds among the canyon walls --
In weird crescendo rises -- wavers -- falls --
Recedes -- draws nearer -- nearer -- coming back.
Wild as the night and, as the night is, black,
He fills the hollows with his fearsome cry,
And though I peer to see him passing by
My eyes their wonted keenness seem to lack.
The forest shivers; all the leaves have fear;
The wood folk creep to lie within their lairs.
And well may heaven defend what heaven holds dear . . .
What time the eerie dusk such echoes bears!
The quarry flees. The circles wind and wind.
And all night long the hound runs close behind.





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