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From a London garden

Chapter 21: THE LAST DAWN
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A collected series of lyrical poems moves between urban and rural imagery to reflect on love, mortality, time, memory, and moral growth. The poet uses concise, imagistic language and varied meters to meditate on human experience: longing and loss, pride and humility, the rhythms of city life and quiet country scenes, the passage of days and seasons, death and consolation. Voices range from personal confession to philosophical observation, with elegiac tones, religious reflection, and celebration of steadfastness. Recurring motifs—light and shadow, dawn and evening, gardens and streets—bind individual pieces into a contemplative portrait of inner life amid modern surroundings.

THE LAST DAWN

From my window fades, like a blur of the breath,
The passing shadow of Night,
And Dawn looks in with the face of Death,
Silent, and cold, and white:
As at last, when the last night’s silence shall break
And the darkness rolls away,
The eyes that were sleeping shall see when they wake
Death with the face of Day.