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MORNING-LAND by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

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First Line: OLD ENGLISH SONGS, YOU BRING TO ME
Last Line: CLATTERING ABOUT THE DAIRY FLOOR.
Subject(s): MORNING; SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
OLD English songs, you bring to me
A simple sweetness somewhat kin
To birds that through the mystery
Of earliest morn make tuneful din,
While hamlet steeples sleepily
At cock-crow chime out three and four,
Till maids get up betime and go
With faces like the red sun low
Clattering about the dairy floor.




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