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WAITING by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Poem Explanation

First Line: WHEN THE DAWN COMES FORTH I WONDER
Last Line: WE WILL GAZE ON IT WITH WEEPING.
Subject(s): GRIEF; WAITING; SORROW; SADNESS;
WHEN the dawn comes forth I wonder
Will our sad, sad hearts awaken,
And the grief we laboured under
From the new-in-joy be shaken?

If the night be long in going,
All our souls will fix in sadness;
And the light of morning glowing
Waken in our eyes no gladness.

All unschooled in mirth we will not
Rouse forgotten joys from sleeping;
And the dawn our pain shall still not:
We will gaze on it with weeping.



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