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A YEAR'S CAROLS: MARCH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: HAIL, HAPPY MARCH, WHOSE FOOT ON EARTH
Last Line: OF TEMPEST AND THE TOWERING MORN.
Subject(s): MARCH (MONTH); SEASONS; WIND;
Hail, happy March, whose foot on earth
Rings as the blast of martial mirth
When trumpets fire men's hearts for fray.
No race of wild things winged or finned
May match the might that wings thy wind
Through air and sea, through scud and spray
Strong joy and thou were powers twin-born
Of tempest and the towering morn.



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