Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MORNING GLORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON


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First Line: In this meadow starred with spring
Last Line: Sleeps below the crimson thorn.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings


IN this meadow starred with spring
Shepherds kneel before their king.
Mary throned, with dreaming eyes,
Gowned in blue like rain-washed skies,
Lifts her tiny son that he
May behold their courtesy.
And green-smocked children, awed and good,
Bring him blossoms from the wood.

Clear the sunlit steeples chime
Mary's coronation-time.
Loud the happy children quire
To the golden-windowed morn;
While the lord of their desire
Sleeps below the crimson thorn.






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