1917 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

 First printed (Chatto), 1904 Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12 (Heinemann), 1917 

London: William Heinemann, 1917

A DARK MONTH

"La maison sans enfants!"—Victor Hugo.

Victor Hugo.

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A month without sight of the sun

Rising or reigning or setting

Through days without use of the day,

Who calls it the month of May?

The sense of the name is undone

And the sound of it fit for forgetting.

We shall not feel if the sun rise,

We shall not care when it sets:

If a nightingale make night's air

As noontide, why should we care?

Till a light of delight that is done rise,

Extinguishing grey regrets;

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