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- THE DAWN
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- I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn
- That has looked down
- On that old queen measuring a town
- With the pin of a brooch,
- Or on the withered men that saw
- From their pedantic Babylon
- The careless planets in their courses,
- The stars fade out where the moon comes.
- And took their tablets and did sums;
- I would be ignorant as the dawn
- That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
- Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
- I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
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