In Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again



Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again,
        And howlest, issuing out of night,
        With blasts that blow the poplar white,
    And lash with storm the streaming pane?
    Day, when my crown'd estate begun
        To pine in that reverse of doom,
        Which sicken'd every living bloom,
    And blurr'd the splendour of the sun;
    Who usherest in the dolorous hour
       With thy quick tears that make the rose
       Pull sideways, and the daisy close
   Her crimson fringes to the shower;

   Who might'st have heaved a windless flame
       Up the deep East, or, whispering, play'd
       A chequer-work of beam and shade
   Along the hills, yet look'd the same.

   As wan, as chill, as wild as now;
       Day, mark'd as with some hideous crime,
       When the dark hand struck down thro' time,
   And cancell'd nature's best: but thou,

   Lift as thou may'st thy burthen'd brows
       Thro' clouds that drench the morning star,
       And whirl the ungarner'd sheaf afar,
   And sow the sky with flying boughs,

   And up thy vault with roaring sound
       Climb thy thick noon, disastrous day;
       Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray,
   And hide thy shame beneath the ground.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAAXBCCBDXXD EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,175
Words 189
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 12, 4, 4, 4, 4

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