The Break of Day
John Shaw Neilson 1872 (Penola, South Australia) – 1942 (Melbourne, Victoria)
THE STARS are pale.
Old is the Night, his case is grievous,
His strength doth fail.
Through stilly hours
The dews have draped with love’s old lavishness
The drowsy flowers.
And Night shall die.
Already, lo! the Morn’s first ecstasies
Across the sky.
An evil time is done.
Again, as some one lost in a quaint parable,
Comes up the Sun.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 63 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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