by Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)
Move him into the sun
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Language: English
Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning, and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seed - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved - still warm - too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
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View text with all available footnotesFirst published in Nation, 1918. In some editions, in stanza 1 line 3, "unsown" is "half-sown"
Text Authorship:
- by Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918), "Futility", first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Line count: 14
Word count: 90