Marsh Hymns—Between Dawn and Sunrise
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| Marsh Hymns Between Dawn and Sunrise by |
| Sidney Lanier composed this poem in Baltimore, Maryland in 1880 or 1881, just a few weeks before he passed away. In the volume of his poems published posthumously and edited by his wife, this poem was characterized as an “unrevised pencilling.” |
Were silver pink, and had a soul,
Which soul were shy, which shyness might
A visible influence be, and roll
Through heaven and earth— ‘twere thou, O light!
O rhapsody of the wraith of red,
O blush but yet in prophecy,
O sun-hint that hath overspread
Sky, marsh, my soul, and yonder sail.
