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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMMENCEMENT POEM: 9. SOLITUDE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poet's Biography
First Line: All alone - alone
Last Line: God shall speak to thee out of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Variant Title(s): Solitude
Subject(s): Commencement; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: All alone - alone
Last Line: God shall speak to thee out of the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Variant Title(s): Solitude
Subject(s): Commencement; Solitude; Loneliness
All alone -- alone,
Calm, as on a kingly throne,
Take thy place in the crowded land,
Self-centred in free self-command.
Let thy manhood leave behind
The narrow ways of the lesser mind:
What to thee are its little cares,
The feeble love or the spite it bears?
Let the noisy crowd go by --
In thy lonely watch on high,
Far from the chattering tongues of men,
Sitting above their call or ken,
Free from links of manner and form
Thou shalt learn of the winged storm --
God shall speak to thee out of the sky.
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