Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A NEW DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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A NEW DAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if already pulsed in every part
Last Line: For childhood's joy, for dreams and hopes and fears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Day; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


AS if already pulsed in every part,
The beating of the ardent sun's deep heart,
The new Day waited on the verge of Dawn,
And wide before her stretched a boundless sea,
Fed from the fountains of Eternity.
Far streamed her pennons, tinged with rosy light,
Beyond the films of mist about her drawn.
Behind her hovered still reluctant Night,
A builder loath from labor to be gone.
One only star in steadfast silence kept
Its lover-vigil while the great world slept;
Till sudden bird-songs swept the dusk like flame,
And, launched on space, the bright creation came,—
A Day from God for freight of smiles and tears,
For childhood's joy, for dreams and hopes and fears.





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