Fear it has faded and the night:
The bells all peal the hour of nine:
The schoolgirls hastening through the light
Touch the unknowable Divine.
What leavening in my heart would bide!
Full dreams a thousand deep are there:
All luminants succumb beside
The unbound melody of hair.
Joy the long timorous takes the flute:
Valiant with colour songs are born:
Love the impatient absolute
Lives as a Saviour in the morn
Get thou behind me Shadow-Death!
Oh ye Eternities delay!
Morning is with me and the breath
Of schoolgirls hastening down the way.
Schoolgirls Hastening
John Shaw Neilson
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Poem topics: breath, death, fear, hair, heart, joy, light, night, shadow, deep, long, morning, touch, divine, flute, colour, delay, absolute, valiant, melody, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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