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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEY HAIL THE SUNRISE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: They swore they found the dark exceeding bitter
Last Line: Strong as the sun, and girded up, and deathless.
First Line: They swore they found the dark exceeding bitter
Last Line: Strong as the sun, and girded up, and deathless.
They swore they found the dark exceeding bitter:
Death's arm and captain, whose obscene commands
Sent beauty marching, save for some stars' glitter:
They were afraid, and took each other's hands.
But hands hold much of heat in little storage;
And eyes are flickerless torches good as day;
The flame of each to the other's flame cried courage;
Soon heart to heart they sighed their grief away.
The sun of a sudden glowing through the brushes,
They woke and laughed, their eyes again were blue,
They ran to the fields, and apprehending thrushes,
Spoke not a word, but travelled in the dew.
Travelled or tarried, breathing deep or breathless,
Strong as the sun, and girded up, and deathless.
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