The Lawspeaker
03-17-2009, 10:34 PM
How Clear, How Lovely Bright- A.E Housman
Perhaps better known as Remorseful Day (thanks to Inspector Morse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxSU7evwcVE).)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1ERAcTW0xtc/RqKj9slhIJI/AAAAAAAAAEw/RNtVrgAxGLE/s320/The_sun___set_by_tihku.jpg (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30913850/?qo=72&q=sunset&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5)
How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free,
Up from the eastern sea
Soars the delightful day.
To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
Days lost, I know not how,
I shall retrieve them now;
Now I shall keep the vow
I never kept before.
Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day.
From Housman's More Poems (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Emartinh/poems/housman.html#MPxvi).
Perhaps better known as Remorseful Day (thanks to Inspector Morse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxSU7evwcVE).)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1ERAcTW0xtc/RqKj9slhIJI/AAAAAAAAAEw/RNtVrgAxGLE/s320/The_sun___set_by_tihku.jpg (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30913850/?qo=72&q=sunset&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5)
How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free,
Up from the eastern sea
Soars the delightful day.
To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
Days lost, I know not how,
I shall retrieve them now;
Now I shall keep the vow
I never kept before.
Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day.
From Housman's More Poems (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Emartinh/poems/housman.html#MPxvi).