Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EXIT HOMO, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS


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EXIT HOMO, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The play is over, and the players gone
Last Line: Faint hints the promise of another day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Yale University; Dramatists


THE play is over, and the players gone.
Across the world-stage, lonely now, there race
The dark-chilled chaos winds. No hope of dawn,
The glacier-curtain in its ancient place.

The play is over; with Polonius lie
The players, couched at dinner. Every scene
Is moldering -- brothel, college, temple high,
With frescoes decked, of arms, or laurel green.

The play is over. Stands the empty stage.
Come there no other caperers for pence,
To rant "This is the immortal, final age";
To bore the everlasting audience?

What though the dreary night engulf the play!
Faint hints the promise of another day.





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