Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SENLIS: EARLY MORNING, by PAUL FORT


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SENLIS: EARLY MORNING, by                    
First Line: I go out. Has all the town this morning dropped from sight? Pray
Last Line: Where god doth rest his brow, bending above senlis.
Subject(s): Towns


I go out. Has all the town this morning dropped from sight? Pray whither has it
flown? By what wind, in what land? I find it yet I scarce dare to extend my
hand. Senlis is vaporous, a veil of muslin light.

What? I to tear Senlis? Take care, where has it gone? The roofs and walls are
one clear net of vapour fine. Notre-Dame doth to the air her throat of lace
resign, her dainty neck, her breast the colour of the moon,

where chimes the hour unreal whose peal can only be heard by angels 'tis so
dulled in the pillow of the sky made of their snowy wings expanded dreamily,
where God doth rest his brow, bending above Senlis.





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