The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. December

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



AWAY TO EGYPT

Enough, enough! This winter is too rude,
Too dark of countenance, of tooth too keen.
Nature finds rebels now in flesh and blood,
And hearts grow sick for change and eyes for green.
Let us away! What profits it that men
Are wise as gods, if winter holds its sway,
If blood be chilled, and numbness clasp the brain?
Frost is too stubborn. Let us then away!

Away to Egypt! There we may forget
All but the presence of the blessed sun.
There in our tents well--housed, sublimely set
Under a pyramid, with horse and gun,
We may make terms with Nature and, awhile,
Put as it were our souls to grass, and run
Barefooted and barehearted in the smile
Of that long summer which still girds the Nile.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X XAXAXBXB CDCDEDEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 694
Words 134
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 8, 8

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