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MORNING GLORY by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN THIS MEADOW STARRED WITH SPRING
Last Line: SLEEPS BELOW THE CRIMSON THORN.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
IN this meadow starred with spring
Shepherds kneel before their king.
Mary throned, with dreaming eyes,
Gowned in blue like rain-washed skies,
Lifts her tiny son that he
May behold their courtesy.
And green-smocked children, awed and good,
Bring him blossoms from the wood.

Clear the sunlit steeples chime
Mary's coronation-time.
Loud the happy children quire
To the golden-windowed morn;
While the lord of their desire
Sleeps below the crimson thorn.




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