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First Line: And all hours long, the town
Last Line: Roll hollow in the interim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Apprehension
Subject(s): War


AND all hours long, the town
Roars like a beast in a cave
That is wounded there
And like to drown;
While days rush, wave after wave
On its lair.

An invisible woe unseals
The flood, so it passes beyond
All bounds: the great old city
Recumbent roars as it feels
The foamy paw of the pond
Reach from immensity.

But all that it can do
Now, as the tide rises,
Is to listen and hear the grim
Waves crash like thunder through
The splintered streets, hear noises
Roll hollow in the interim.






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