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RETREAT by YORK SAMPSON

First Line: GO INTO THE SILENCE, SONS
Last Line: BANG CRASS AND BID YOU WAKE.
Subject(s): PEACE; REST; SILENCE;
Go into the silence, sons.
Go to the earth for a time;
Let verdure creep
And quiet heap
Great peace upon your rhyme.

Be a long time there, lads,
Be there till you ache
For louder songs
Where gaudy gongs
Bang crass and bid you wake.



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