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PROMETHEUS by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON

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First Line: ALL DAY BENEATH THE BLEAK INDIFFERENT SKIES
Last Line: QUICK FIRE ENOUGH TO SET HIS WORLD ALIGHT.
Subject(s): FIRE;
All day beneath the bleak, indifferent skies,
Broken and blind, a shivering bag of bones,
He trudges over icy paving stones,
And "Matches! Matches! Matches! Matches!" cries.

And now beneath the dismal, dripping night
And shadowed by a deeper night, he stands:
And yet he holds within his palsied hands
Quick fire enough to set his world alight.



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