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THE SHADOW by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE'S A DELL THAT'S SUNNY ENOUGH FOR LAUGHING JOY
Last Line: IN SILENCE STUMBLING THROUGH THE GLADE.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
Here's a dell that's sunny enough for laughing joy;
Robins whistling clear enough
From mossy woodpiles near enough, but where's my joy?

Blithe in truth looks frost's blue eye
And lovely blue the brook flits by,
Red-faced sun and jewelled sloe
And jest of old crow answering crow would all wake joy;

But old time slyly all the while
Checks the song and dims the smile,
And sense so eager turns to shade,
In silence stumbling through the glade.



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