Dawn
Catherine Amy
Scott (née Dawson)
Scott, Catherine Amy (née Dawson)
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed C. A. Dawson.
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Dawson was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/370). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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The eager light of morning ! A clear blush
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Daw
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The eager light of morning ! A clear blush
Of arrowy crimson shooting to the flakes
Of cloudland snow—then ruffling the dim lakes
From starlit silver to a dimpled flush
Of rosy water. Now the slumbrous hush
Yields at the breath of breezes ; morning breaks,
And carolling of lark and throstle wakes
A world to labour. When the herb is lush
On sheltered mead, the level gleams of light
Persuade the daisies to a wider round
Of stretching petals. Morn ! the stir, the might,
The wonder of young being, with sweet sound
Of questing voices as the golden height
Of heaven dawns and earth is summer-crowned.
C. A. Dawson
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