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Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)

Monition


              1A faint wind, blowing from World's End,
              2    Made strange the city street.
              3A strange sound mingled in the fall
              4    Of the familiar feet.

              5Something unseen whirled with the leaves

              6    To tap on door and sill.
              7Something unknown went whispering by
              8    Even when the wind was still.

              9And men looked up with startled eyes
            10    And hurried on their way,
            11As if they had been called, and told
            12    How brief their day.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Charles G. D. Roberts, The Vagrant of Time (Toronto: Ryerson, 1927): 35. PS 8485 O22V3 Roberts Library.
First publication date: January 1907
Publication date note: The Century Magazine (January 1907)
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/3

Composition date: 1904 - 1905
Rhyme: abcb

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