Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT SUNRISE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI


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First Line: They pushed him straight against the wall
Last Line: Against the bedroom wall.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


They pushed him straight against the wall;
The firing squad dropped in a row;
And why he stood on tiptoes,
Those men shall never know.

He wore a smile across his face
As he stood primly there,
The guns straight aiming at his heart,
The sun upon his hair;

For he remembered, in a flash,
Those days beyond recall,
When his proud mother took his height
Against the bedroom wall.





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