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Schoolgirls Hastening

John Shaw Neilson 1872 (Penola, South Australia) – 1942 (Melbourne, Victoria)

Fear it has faded and the night:
 The bells all peal the hour of nine:
The schoolgirls hastening through the light
 Touch the unknowable Divine.

What leavening in my heart would bide!
  Full dreams a thousand deep are there:
All luminants succumb beside
  The unbound melody of hair.

Joy the long timorous takes the flute:
  Valiant with colour songs are born:
Love the impatient absolute
  Lives as a Saviour in the morn

Get thou behind me Shadow-Death!
  Oh ye Eternities delay!
Morning is with me and the breath
  Of schoolgirls hastening down the way.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 563
Words 96
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
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John Shaw Neilson

John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. he died when he was 70 years old. more…

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