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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAWN ON THE HEADLAND, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn - and a magical stillness: on earth
Last Line: Of the thunder of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: Dawn - and a magical stillness: on earth
Last Line: Of the thunder of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
DAWN -- and a magical stillness: on earth, quiescence profound;
On the waters a vast Content, as of hunger appeased and stayed;
In the heavens a silence that seems not mere privation of sound,
But a thing with form and body, a thing to be touched and weighed!
Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the cosmic wheel,
In the hot collision of Forces, and clangour of boundless Strife,
Mid the sound of the speed of the worlds, -- the rushing worlds, -- and the peal
Of the thunder of Life.
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